About Us
A commissioned California notary handling unclaimed property claims — searching, preparing, notarizing and filing, for people who would rather not do it alone.
Last reviewed Written from State Controller, State Controller data Everything here is checkable without asking us.
Who We Are
We are a small California practice, not a call centre. The person who takes your consultation is the person who prepares your documents and notarizes your affirmation. You will know their name and their commission number before you commit to anything.
Why We Lead with the Free Option
Because it is true, and because you would find out anyway. The State Controller processes claims free of charge and publishes the whole database. Any service that hides that is telling you something about itself.
Why People Choose Us
- Notarization handled in-house — required on every claim of real size
- A published fee, one click from every page, capped by statute at 10%
- Nothing owed until the State has paid you
- A named, commissioned, bonded professional rather than an anonymous form
- Mobile appointments across California, including for claimants who cannot travel
Where We Work
We serve all 58 California counties. Consultations are by phone or video anywhere in the state; in-person and mobile notary appointments are quoted with travel before we come out.
How You Are Protected
Our fee is capped at ten per cent of what is recovered by Code of Civil Procedure §1582, and nothing is owed until the State Controller has paid you. If we recover nothing, you owe nothing. Our recovery fee is never asked for up front — it comes out of money the Controller has already paid you. A booking deposit on an in-person appointment is a separate thing, and is credited back against anything you are charged.
California Unclaimed Property Services is a private asset recovery firm. We are not the California State Controller’s Office.
What We Specialise In
The State Controller handles simple claims well. A record in your own name, an address you can
document, cash rather than shares — that claim is approved with very little evidence, and we will
tell you to file it yourself and keep the whole amount.
We built this firm around the claims that do not go that way: property whose owner has died and
whose estate was never probated, shares that were sold when they escheated and now need a transfer
agent’s records to trace, companies that dissolved or were acquired so the chain of succession has
to be rebuilt from Secretary of State filings, and records somebody else has already claimed.
Those claims rarely get refused outright. They stall on a deficiency notice nobody answers, and
then sit for years.
That is the work we are for, and it is the only work worth paying a percentage for.
What a complex claim actually involves.
Sources
This page is written from the public record. Read the originals rather than taking our summary of them.
We are a private firm. We are not the State Controller’s office, not affiliated with it, and not endorsed by it.
From the knowledge base
How This Actually Works
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- 13 Oct 2026 Owner of Record vs. Actual Owner: What the Name Really Means Owner of record is the name a company or bank reported when it handed unclaimed property to California, not a verified current…
- 13 Oct 2026 The Unclaimed Property Liability You Inherit in an Acquisition When a company acquires another, it also acquires that company's unclaimed property history: uncashed checks, dormant accounts, and any unreported liability now…
- 12 Oct 2026 California’s Two Unclaimed Property Reporting Calendars California holders follow one of two reporting calendars. Life insurance companies file their notice report before 1 May and remit property between…
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- 11 Oct 2026 What California Does With Your Money While It Waits California does not spend, invest, or time-limit unclaimed property. The State Controller holds it in custody under the property's reported dollar value,…
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Give us a name and we will check the State Controller’s records under every reasonable variant of it. Asking costs nothing and commits you to nothing.