What is Unclaimed Property?

The Wide Variety of Unclaimed Assets

Unclaimed property consists of assets that, because their owners are unaware of them, are not managed or disposed of by said owners, or are abandoned, or were transferred to an entity responsible for receiving assets without a known owner.

This includes life insurance policies, expropriation indemnities, bank accounts and financial assets, legacies, estates with or without a will, sums from historical reparation regimes, real estate and undivided shares, class actions, and third-party stipulations in trusts or other instruments. Applicable laws usually establish deadlines and procedures for transferring these assets to state entities, either with the current owner’s right to recovery without time limitation, or until a certain date, or without further right.

Assets that belong to you and you may not know about

In most situations, unclaimed property arises from the current holder’s lack of awareness of their rights to the assets as a result of often lengthy chains of inheritance, or due to loss of contact between the entity holding the assets and their owner.
We offer our assistance to commercial companies, banks, insurance companies, colleagues, law firms, real estate agents, and judicial and public institutions. We also take on cases on our own initiative when we believe there are valid reasons to do so, with a success rate we are proud of.

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Therefore, our work is to bring good news to people regarding economic values they were surely unaware of. This exciting field of action, where Genealogy and Archival Science converge and where Information Technologies are increasingly prominent, requires experience, continuous updating, and permanent contact with competent professionals in different parts of the world.

Stilman has been providing a service of excellence for more than twenty years, forging positive relationships with institutions, peer firms, professionals, and, of course, with the families and individuals it has helped gain access to existing economic assets in their favor.

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