Why Estate Administrators Cannot Locate Long Lost Heirs

Established in 1966, Kemp & Associates has a team with a combined 500 years of experience supporting probate and genealogical research. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Kemp & Associates matches lost heirs with their rightful inheritances when estate administrators cannot locate them.

Receiving a call that you are the heir/heiress of an unknown deceased relative’s estate sounds too good to be true. However, it does happen. When it does, most people have a lot of questions, one of the most common of which is why the estate administrator didn’t come looking.

Well, the work of the majority of estate administrators is to collect all the deceased’s assets, pay off debt, and oversee distribution. In many states, the administrator simply posts a notice on the local daily notifying the public of the death of deceased and announcing the time frame for claiming against the deceased’s estate. This method is often insufficient since few people read the legal section of a newspaper.

In addition, accurately finding the long-lost heir of an estate requires significant genealogical research, sometimes dating back to the 1800s, coupled with modern investigative techniques. This is a feat many estate administrators are not in a position to achieve.