When someone can’t be easily found, the process of finding them is called skip tracing. Most people don’t know very much about the process of skip tracing, how it’s done, or when it is done. Private process servers frequently use skip tracing to find individuals who need to be served papers. Here are four things you probably didn’t know about skip tracing.
Most Likely to Disappear
Skip tracing is used in a number of cases, but there are certain situations that are more likely to need a skip trace. These cases include witnesses for lawsuits, those accused of fraud, debtors who are in default, estate heirs that are missing and unaware of their inheritance, or defendants who are avoiding being located to prolong, delay, or dismiss a case.
Information That Can Be Found
Through a skip trace, process servers can find out a lot about a person’s whereabouts and contact information. They can find their home address, their phone number, their place of employment, their social security number, and their driver’s license number. Any of these things can help locate the individual in question.
Sharing Information
Sometimes a process server will hire a private detective to find information about a person’s whereabouts. The private detective can gather information, but he or she can only share that information if they have a viable reason for doing so. Finding someone to serve them papers in a legal action is a viable reason and protected by law.
Methods for Finding Information
There are a number of methods that are used to find someone that needs to be served papers. Most process servers will start with public records such as property tax records, marriage licenses, and arrest records. There are also databases that offer more sensitive information that only registered and certified users can access.
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