Who engages you — the estate or the attorney?

Either, as long as the requester has an appropriate role. The engagement and fee are with the estate or its representative.

Can you find every heir?

No engagement can promise that. We report the branches the record documents and identify clearly where it goes silent.

Do you obtain certified vital records?

We research the public record and identify which certified records the estate should order directly from the issuing jurisdiction.

Estates and Probate

Research Support for Probate and Estate Professionals

Identify heirs, document relationships, and develop reachable contacts.

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How we support this work

Estates stall when a beneficiary cannot be found or an heirship chain is undocumented. We research vital and genealogical public records, chart the relationships the record supports, and develop current contact leads so notice and distribution can proceed on schedule.

Typical use cases

Identifying potential heirs before distribution
Locating a known but unreachable beneficiary
Documenting an heirship chain for a title matter
Researching deceased-status indicators
Supporting statutory notice requirements

Boundaries we hold

We do not determine legal entitlement to an estate, and we do not work on a contingency arrangement with heirs.

All case requests are reviewed for a lawful and authorized purpose. TracePoint Forensics reserves the right to decline any request that does not meet its compliance and ethical standards.