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Locate a beneficiary or next of kin
Executors, administrators and probate solicitors need to find beneficiaries who have moved, lost touch or never been contacted. We trace them and, where you prefer, make the first approach on your behalf.
Who instructs this
Executors, administrators, probate solicitors, trustees, genealogists.
How it works
- Tell us about the estate and the person you are looking for.
- We trace them.
- You receive the current registered address, or we pass on your letter if you would rather they hear from you first.
Questions about this
What if the beneficiary has died?
We will tell you what we establish and there is no charge for a UK trace that ends that way.
Guides that go with this
Finding missing beneficiaries: a guide for executors
Executors must find every beneficiary first. What a section 27 notice does not cover, the options if someone stays missing, and how a £150 trace helps.
Read the guideMissing beneficiary indemnity insurance: what it covers, when you need it, and why a trace comes first
Missing beneficiary indemnity insurance explained for executors and administrators: what the policy covers, why insurers expect a trace first, what section 27 notices and a Benjamin order do, and the fixed-fee trace that usually settles it.
Read the guideTracing UK beneficiaries and heirs for an overseas estate
For executors and estate attorneys outside the UK: how to find a beneficiary or heir living in Britain, show reasonable efforts and instruct a £150 trace.
Read the guide