Legal Question in Investment Law in Alabama

Re: what is skip tracing and their methods

Skip tracing deals with locating and finding of debtors, witnesses, insureds, defendants, property owners, stockholders and class action recipients who have given a skip to his/her counterpart. A skip tracer can uncover Anyone's Public Record secretly for someone else. Anyone can find information about a person if they dig deep enough. The Skip Tracer professional may mostly need information in order to: Collect Debts, Service Legal Matters, Repossess Something, Locate Witnesses, Locate Missing Persons or Heirs, Find Life Insurance Beneficiaries, Locate People that Property and/or Money is owed to Locate a Long Lost Relative, Friend, or Loved One. The list of reasons why a Skip Tracer may be needed can get very long

Skip tracing services are also required mostly required to locate people who have moved hastily or that have secretly fled without giving notice, and absconded in order to avoid paying debts, some disregarding and omitting what intervenes, or those that are trying to hide from the law. Those that are "Missing" (for a variety of reasons) can in most cases be found through the paper trails they leave behind. Divorce or Marital Litigation and lawsuits generate a lot of work for Skip Tracers. The service may be needed to help collect on Past Due Child Support or to help bring a Bail Jumper or Convicted Criminal to Justice. Sometimes it is only needed to correct a simple Human Computer Input Error resulting an Inaccurate Address or Telephone Number that is needed for contacting someone. With that said it brings us to the starting point

First thing, we should do is "Categorize the Skip." The person your looking for is either an Intentional Skip, or an Unintentional Skip. If the person has taken flight from the authorities for criminal acts, or they are not wanting to be found for some reason they are an Intentional Skip, and it is not likely this person will leave behind the typical "trails" that skip tracers look for. Many Intentional Skips are aware of what is necessary, what they must do, to avoid being found

The Intentional Skip avoids lawsuits, and bill collectors by moving around a lot. They may change their telephone numbers and get a Post Office Box to avoid obligations, but usually are not willing to make an entire identity change and will frequently leave a trail that can be followed

If the person is an Intentional Skip and they know how to hide, you just have to hope that person "slips up" somewhere. It gets difficult if the person has taken flight, they are aware of how to avoid paper trails, they do not stay in touch with old friends, family and relatives, they work under the table for cash only, they change their occupations frequently, they dropped all their old hobbies, they took on a new look, and they adopted new behavior patterns.