5-4-2002
DEAR FUNNYGIRL:
Visit the Arizona website (
www.revenue.state.az.us/unclm/unclprop.htm) and the California website (
www.sco.ca.gov) to get answers to your questions.
If you have other brothers and sisters, it would be wise to furnish the unclaimed offices with a list of their names and addresses and to promise that you will split the money with the other heirs, as they are sometimes reluctant to release the money to one heir because they are afraid that one heir might keep all the money for themselves.
Good luck in getting your money back--it may take a few months, but you will eventually get it.
DEAR SEANSCOTT:
If you could mention the source or type of company that is holding your mother-in-laws unclaimed money, I can possibly suggest a solution to how she can find documentation of her address (does the site say the money came from a utility company, or insurance company, etc.?).
Her best option would be to buy (for less than $10) a copy of her credit report, which will show an address history probably as far as 11 years ago and more. Other options might include voter registration records, the reverse criss-cross directory at the library (sometimes called "Cole's Directory" or Polk's Directory), legal documents at a courthouse (if perhaps she had a traffic ticket back then, or utility bill service, etc. or paid property taxes). Or a cancelled check back then, available by checking microfilm records at her bank.
DANDY DON