Assets Search Worldwide

Financial Assets Search: Uncovering Key Records for Estate Administration

The Financial Assets Search service explores financial institutions’ records to establish the deceased’s financial footprint and create a financial history/picture of the deceased to aid estate administration.

Acting on behalf of probate attorneys, estate administrators and other professionals, our team contacts financial institutions across the globe to establish the presence of a financial profile or footprint of the deceased. These searches are a vital, best practice element of every administration of a deceased’s estate.

Why do a Financial Assets Search

Billions of dollars in unclaimed assets are sitting in limbo across the United States. In fact, it is estimated that over $100 billion in unclaimed property is held by state governments, financial institutions, insurance companies, and pension funds. These assets include dormant bank accounts, unclaimed life insurance benefits, forgotten retirement funds, and unclaimed stocks and bonds.

How Do These Assets Become “Lost”?
Assets can become unclaimed due to a variety of reasons, including job changes, relocations, mergers and closures of financial institutions, and name changes. Holding multiple accounts across different institutions also increases the likelihood of losing track of assets over time.

Asset Search Worldwide

Estate Administration

Our global financial assets search service conducts thorough investigations to identify all unclaimed assets belonging to the deceased, creating a comprehensive financial profile. We provide probate professionals with a detailed report, ensuring the Executor has a complete overview of the deceased’s bank accounts, pension plans, bank accounts, 401K’s, IRA’s, stocks, bonds, life insurance policies and other investments. This helps the Executor meet their legal obligations, minimizing the risk of omissions that could lead to financial loss or costly legal disputes for the estate.

Ensuring a complete financial assets search in every probate case provides Executors with peace of mind and helps beneficiaries receive their rightful inheritance.

Financial Assets Search

What will the search cover?

 

Bank Accounts

 

Retirement Accounts & Pension Funds

 

Insurance Policies

 

Government & State-Held Funds

 

Stock & Bonds

Why conducting a financial assets search is important

 

A financial assets search helps locate all the deceased’s financial assets which might not be immediately known to the executor or administrator. This ensures that no valuable assets are overlooked or forgotten during estate administration.

 

Executors and estate administrators have a legal duty to fully account for the deceased’s estate. Conducting a thorough financial asset search helps them meet this responsibility by locating all assets that must be included. Failing to do so could lead to legal consequences or personal liability.

How does Financial Assets Search work?

Just provide key details about the deceased (name, addresses, DOB, SSN, occupations) along with a death certificate, letter of authority, and valid ID. Once submitted, we conduct a thorough search across all financial institutions, pension providers, and insurance companies, ensuring that no asset is left unclaimed. We do all the hard work—giving you peace of mind and protecting the estate.

 

The Probate professional uploads the search

 

Our team conducts a detailed, online search

 

The Institutions receive the deceased’s profile information and respond with matches or no matches

 

Responses are collated into one easily accessible online report, accessible 24/7

 

The Probate professional receives a full overview and is given details on how to claim on discovered accounts

Additional Services

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Missing Beneficiaries

Sale & Transfer of Shares

Form 706-NA

 

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