Our Service to the Court System

If a person dies without a spouse or children at the time they pass away, a family tree needs to be presented to the probate court. Family members of a certain generation to the decedent are entitled to notice even if they did not have a relationship with the person. If there is no Will members of a certain generation of the family will inherit assets from the decedent’s estate according to the Connecticut General Statutes. If there is a Will, that document will control how assets of the estate are distributed unless there is a valid reason under the Connecticut General Statutes to contest the Will that is being presented to the probate court. As an example, a relative may have another copy of a Will the decedent made that could be a later date than the one presented with the probate application to open the estate.

Although there may not be money that a person we locate is going to inherit, there are many benefits to what location of an individual can accomplish. Sometimes we join family members together who have grown distant over the years, provide information about a loved one that family members have been trying to locate and maybe inform them where that person may be buried if they are deceased. We obtain medical history for someone who might have been adopted and their relative passed away. We even get a homeless person off the streets and eligible for government benefits if they did not have any personal documents that the state would require.