Call Kinsey Investigations for Heir Searches in California

Heir search private investigations are one of many types of private detective services offered by Kinsey Investigations. Heir searches usually involve looking through several generations of a family’s relatives to determine if any additional heirs may be living and legally entitled to an interest in various kinds of property. Heir search investigations may be required for executing wills/trusts, to secure the right to distribute or sell various kinds of property, or to locate potentially unknown heirs who may have a legal interest in a family’s wealth or inherited property. When real estate or other types of family assets are set to be inherited, distributed, or sold, anyone with a legal interest in the property should be notified and included in the process. When heirs or suspected heirs are no longer in contact with the rest of their families, a California private investigator can help locate them. Voted one of the best Los Angeles private investigators, Kinsey Investigations has an experienced and savvy team of female private detectives who are experts at heir search investigations. Our decades of experience conducting these and other kinds of private investigation services make us the ideal Los Angeles private detective agency to call for anyone needing help finding their relatives.

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In our modern, hyper-connected world, we have more technology designed to help us keep in touch with others than ever before. You don’t have to be an L.A. private investigator to log on to Ancestry.com or 23andMe an find a multitude of family connections (and even, perhaps, a few family secrets) going back 100s of years. With all this information at our fingertips, it may be hard to imagine not being able to find and get in touch with someone related to you. However, this is exactly what California private investigators do when we’re hired for heir search investigations. The most common reasons for heir searches usually have to do with executing wills, distributing inheritances, or selling or otherwise liquidating property that’s owned by more than one person. Anything that can be owned including real estate, business interests, financial accounts, and other kinds of property may be subject to transfer and/or proper reimbursement to a person with partial or full ownership. While carrying out these obligations presents little to no problem when everyone with a claim can be notified, when the whereabouts of family members or other persons named as owners/beneficiaries are not known, an heir search private investigation can clear the path to executing a will or gaining legal right to sell/liquidate the property in question.

All this may sound like jargon to anyone who’s never been involved in such a matter, and the idea of not knowing where a relative is or even whether they’re alive may sound utterly ridiculous. But take it from a Los Angeles private detective agency, it happens more than you might expect. When family members move overseas, when children cut ties with their parents, when an adoption is kept secret, or when someone raises a relative’s child as their own, details about heritage or whereabouts can get lost, especially as decades pass and new generations come into the picture.

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Let’s say, for instance, that a husband and wife own a large commercial building, rented by several businesses. When they both pass away, ownership is transferred to their three adult children and their families. Now, the three adult children must agree on how the building will be maintained and managed as well as the distribution of profits from the rental revenue, who will pay for property tax and upkeep, etc. One or more of them may decide to either forfeit or ask their siblings to buy out their interest. At some point, the siblings might decide to sell the building, at which point they’ll have to agree on the price and who will benefit from the sale.

As long as the three siblings are in communication and can come to an agreement when there’s a decision to be made, everything can operate fairly straight-forwardly. They may have disagreements or decide to outsource some of the management to various third parties, but they know how to get in touch with one another when there are choices to be made. Where heir searches become necessary, and when a California private investigator might get involved, is in cases when one of the partial owners is no longer in contact with the rest of the family. To continue with our example above, imagine that one of the adult siblings had moved overseas before ownership of the building was passed to them. Imagine further that the building is kept in the family for several more generations and the portion of the family living in another country falls out of touch with the rest. You can see how it might be harder to reach everyone with a stake in the building. A few generations down the line, the relatives in the United States might not even know which of their overseas relatives are still living and whether they have cousins they don’t even know about.

Any Los Angeles County Investigator can tell you, it doesn’t take an overseas move to cause people to lose touch. Plenty of heir search investigations involve looking for individuals still living in the U.S. who haven’t been in contact for decades or more. If you need to find a long lost relative or determine if any additional heirs are still alive, give Kinsey Investigations a call. Our team of female private investigators know how to search through multiple generations of a family, no matter where they may have moved to, and no matter how many years have passed. The sooner you give us a call, the sooner we can get started working on your case.