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Recent court case rules in favour of adopted child.

Under the laws governing inheritance an adopted child no longer has the right to inherit from their blood parents in a case of intestacy, however a recent case in the High Court backed up by the Appeal Court found in favour of a woman who had been given up for…

Technology Transforms & Revolutionises Legal Services; Get On Board!

The launch of Finders free ‘Heir Hunters’ App is seen as another milestone in the ever onward march of technology.Tracing heirs to estates and finding beneficiaries was, not so long ago, almost exclusively within the realm of private investigation and meant a lot of shoe leather being worn very thin.

First Ever ‘Heir Hunters’ App Launched

Finders launch the first ever Heir Hunters App. That’s right, we’ve done it first! And it’s free forever.Finders is the first Genealogy firm to release an App to facilitate a growing number of iPhone, iPad and Android users working from home or on the move. Start tracing missing heirs whenever…

Heir Hunters: Expect the unexpected

When the representative of a probate genealogy company visits potential beneficiaries they have to expect the unexpected and be prepared for knock backs as well as successes.Finders representatives visit beneficiaries all over the UK from Cornwall to the Highlands. Most visits are routine but sometimes they become more interesting, heirs…

Report shows value of intestacies continues to rise

The Treasury Solicitor receipts from intestate estates almost doubled between 2011 and 2012 increasing from £17m to £33.5m. It would appear that the individual value of the intestacies hasn’t increased but on their death the assets of an increasing number of people are finding their way to the Treasury or…

Finders International joins BBC Heir Hunters for Series 8

Finders International joins BBC Heir Hunters for Series 8 Finders International has agreed to appear in Heir Hunters Series 8, to be shown on the BBC from January 2014. Heir Hunters takes a fly on the wall look at real cases involving the tracing of beneficiaries to estates, leading viewers…

Charity reports startling increase in Bona Vacantia.

Charity reports startling increase in Bona Vacantia. It has recently been estimated by a major charity that two-thirds of Britons have not yet made a will. Whether it’s a round of golf, the kids activities or domestic duties there is always something going on that at the time seems…

Estate valuation: It’s not a simple process

It is a phrase often heard by an heir hunter when visiting a potential beneficiary, “he didn’t have anything to leave, I suppose I may get a pound!” Of course the probate genealogists don’t know the value of an estate until an application has been made to the treasury but…

Law Commission consultation focuses on matrimonial property

A consultation has been launched by The Law Commission on the “incomplete and uninformative” law relating to financial provision on divorce. The paper, Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements, looks at how property should be divided on divorce and extends to property that one partner owned before the marriage or that…

Survey highlights the increasing number of missing wills

Many people cannot trace a will that they know a deceased relative made, a fact evidenced by recent research that showed that 67% of people in the UK don’t know where their parents’ wills are. This is not just a frustration for the relatives but can lead to an estate…

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