missing heir
Lost estate claimant
A missing heir is a person entitled to inherit property or money who cannot be located.
The term appears in legal contexts when estates cannot be settled because rightful beneficiaries are unknown or unfindable: The firm specializes in tracking down missing heirs.
Heir-hunting services and unclaimed property databases exist to reunite missing heirs with inheritances they don't know they're owed.
- estateProperty and grounds
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- family treeChart of ancestors
detective · search · claimant · rightful owner · probate · will · testament · long-lost · long lost relative · next of kin · rightful · descendant · lineage · legacy · mystery · DNA test · investigation · birthright
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