We take pride in our long history dedicated to the identification and location of heirs to previously unknown assets, resulting from wills, historical reparation schemes, unclaimed policies, and many other legal situations that give rise to unclaimed property.
The search for heirs is our passion, and Genealogy and Archival Science, as auxiliary sciences of History, are the fundamental tools to which we sometimes devote years of effort to resolve cases requiring the location of current beneficiaries of apparently abandoned economic assets.
Companies, Professional Firms and Institutions: Do you need to contact the owners of unclaimed assets?
Contacting us is the beginning of the solution
If you, your company or institution needs to locate the owners or heirs of long-unclaimed assets (owners of abandoned real estate, shareholders who have been lost track of, holders of dormant accounts, beneficiaries of insurance policies, etc.), you are in the right place: contacting us is the beginning of the solution.
Stilman has more than twenty years of experience in locating beneficiaries of unclaimed property of the most diverse types.
We help individuals and public and private entities with the following:
– Property managers and real estate agencies
We locate the current owners of abandoned houses, land or apartments, thus speeding up the regularization of debts or the completion of real estate transactions.
– Banks and Insurance Companies
By turning to our firm, financial institutions and insurance companies can properly fulfill their responsibility to make efforts to locate the beneficiaries of unclaimed accounts, investments or policies. Whether before remitting funds to government unclaimed property offices in compliance with the rules applicable in their jurisdiction, or in any situation in which it is reasonable to assume that beneficiaries are unaware of the rights they hold, we are available to help banking and insurance institutions undertake the search for the owners of the funds or their heirs.
– Governments
Stilman carries out the necessary due diligence procedures – due diligence – before state authorities undertake processes to appropriate assets presumed abandoned or ownerless.
– Lawyers and Notaries
When, within the framework of a judicial, notarial or administrative proceeding, it is necessary to identify, locate or effectively serve heirs and other presumed beneficiaries of assets or rights, Stilman works together with legal professionals to achieve this. This frequently takes place in testate and intestate successions, adverse possession proceedings (usucapion), expropriation, partition of co-ownership, class actions and bankruptcy dividend distribution proceedings, among other contexts.
– Public Defenders and Guardians for Absent Parties
In the exercise of their mandate, public defender offices need to arrange the means to find absent defendants. However, it is well known that traditional mechanisms for serving unknown persons or persons with an unknown address (such as the publication of legal notices) do not usually fulfill the function for which they were designed. For this reason, those who represent the interests of these persons can be certain that our company will make professional, active and meaningful efforts to notify them of the judicial proceedings in which they are summoned and of the possible rights to which they may be entitled, thus ensuring a more effective and transparent administration of Justice.
– Genealogists and Colleague Firms: assistance and representation
We contribute with other Genealogists and Colleague Firms in the field of unclaimed property to identify, locate and contact beneficiaries, either by assisting with tasks within our reach or by acting as their representative. We do so by diligently safeguarding the information entrusted to us and with full respect for the rights of the beneficiaries with whom we deal. In general, if you know of any asset, right, property or bank account that is abandoned or unclaimed and presumably unknown to its legal beneficiary, do not hesitate to contact us.