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Missing Person Locates

The term “Locate missing person” is a frequent request of attorneys and others in the legal profession who often need to find parties involved in litigation. This includes clients, witnesses, experts, defendants or anyone else required for statements, service of process, depositions, or trial testimony.

Get started by choosing a type of service from the Missing Person Search Options grid at the bottom of this page.

Missing person locates vary in degree of difficulty. In general, the more you know about the person, the easier the job is. This is why we encourage clients to learn as much as possible about the parties involved in a legal matter. Whether it is an investigator taking a statement, an attorney taking a deposition or a legal assistant sighing up a new client, it is important to get dates of birth, Social Security numbers, full addresses and names of friends or relatives, people that will know the whereabouts of the person should they move in the future.

The chart below describes the various services we offer for “Locate missing person.” For a free consultation or to get started right away on your process service project, call us for service throughout California and the US at (800) 487-0947, e-mail us or download our fax form.

Missing Person Search Options

Search Level Description Cost
Level One
(Attorney skip-trace)
  • Used for initial locates.
    85% success rate
  • Requires last known address
Fixed Fee- $125*
Level Two
  • For more difficult to locate subjects
  • Includes additional database and telephone research
Fixed Fee – $250*
Level Three
  • For evasive subjects and “name only” locates
  • Also used for adoption and birth parent locates
Average cost: $500 and up


How do we locate people?
We have access to thousands of databases nationwide with millions of names and addresses. These include driver records, consumer profiles, social security data, post office forwarding data, mailing lists, magazine subscriptions, voter records, utility records, reverse telephone directories, real property records, and a host of other public and proprietary databases. (Some states restrict access to certain databases.)