Missing Person Locates For Law Firms and Attorneys
Law firms and attorneys frequently need to have assistance in finding missing persons also. For 30 years bestprivateinvestigatorstx.com has provided lawyers with the finest litigation support. We provide efficient and fast results and deliver them within a form of presentation that the legal industry needs. Our work product is also backed up with experienced testimony and solid evidence whenever necessary.

FAQs

What is Skip Tracing

This is the art of finding somebody. A skip is an individual, who, for whatever reasons, decides to leave a certain area. A majority of skips eventually either leave a verbal trail, paper trail, or both. A person can have many different reasons for wanting to skip, like running from the law, sense of adventure or rebellion, amnesia, frustration and boredom, escaping debt, revenge, divorce or marriage.

How Can A Skip Trace Be Done On A Witness Who Has Moved?

Whenever you need to have a skip trace done on a witness who has moved out of the area, the first thing that needs to be done is to ask the local post office for a forwarding address under the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act). The response you receive will vary from post office to post office, however, none of them tend to give a fast response. It is more efficient usually to hire a private investigator for this purpose since they have the proper techniques and knowledge for expediting this process.

If it isn’t productive to go through the post office, you can find a witness who has moved through hiring a private investigator who has access to some of the proprietary consumer databases that the general public doesn’t have access to. There are also some law firms that have access to those databases. However, it is still a special skill to interpret the results and know the best approaches for following up on the leads that the search results provide. An experienced investigator can help to maximize these search results.

If the witness’s current location is not revealed by the database research, then it may be required to do some good old gumshoe investigating. (During the film noir era private eyes got the “gumshoe” nickname due to getting gum on their shoes all the time from all of the pavement-pounding walking they did). Visiting the last known address and speaking with apartment managers and neighbors can provide a lot of valuable information, particularly when the job is done by a skilled undercover private investigator.

I Need To Locate A Missing Client

A civil lawsuit like a personal injury case frequently takes several years to make its way through the court system. Attorneys representing these kinds of clients will invariably run into situations where you try to contact your client regarding an upcoming deposition or some other legal issue and your client is missing.

Initially, you will, of course, attempt to make use of the usual methods for getting new addresses, such as doing a skip trace or forwarding address request. However, this will not always give you the results that you want. A private investigator might need to be hired at that point to track down your client who has wandered off.

What an experienced private eye can offer is years worth of experience in locating missing persons. They have the knowledge for reading address histories that helps to establish patterns. Often they can tell if a person has moved in with their relatives or doubled back to an old address. They know the best ways of approaching third parties like relatives and neighbors to obtain information on where the individual is without raising any red flags that might make them less cooperative.

How Can I Find A Defendant In Order To Serve Him

When attorneys are working on a civil suit like a wrongful death or personal injury case, one important responsibility they have is serving the defendant with papers so that they are notified they are being sued. Frequently you might not have enough contact information on a defendant in order to find and serve them successfully.

That is when an experienced private investigator is needed to take whatever little information you might have on a defendant and use that to find and serve the person. Private eyes are able to take very scant data on an individual and use the clued to find the defendant eventually.

At times it may appear as if a defendant has completely disappeared without a trace. One useful technique that a private investigator might use is identifying and tracking down the person’s relatives. Private investigators are able to do this through utilizing databases containing clues to this kind of information. Quite often, even when a subject has taken serious measures to hide, the relatives haven’t, and this weak link within the chain can be exploited by the private investigator.