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Enter a name exactly as it may have appeared on an old account. We search the State Controller’s published records under every reasonable variant of it, not just the spelling you typed.

10 exact, and 8 close matches worth a look

Worth $11,386 in total. A match is not proof — the State holds many people with the same name, and establishing which record is yours is the real work of a claim.

The State holds 130 records under the surname Kates, worth $75,018. See every city and first name they are recorded under

  • Strong match

    Frances Kates

    Cash held by the State · Canoga Park, CA

    Reported by Hologic Inc

    Held jointly with 2 other people

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $1,386.00
    Start this claim

    State ID 1010793120

  • Strong match

    Frances Kates

    Unpaid dividends · Canoga Park, CA

    Reported by Hologic Inc

    Held jointly with 2 other people

    $532.35
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    State ID 1010793118

  • Strong match

    Frances Kates

    Cash held by the State · Encino, CA

    Reported by Hsbc Bank Usa Na

    $483.97
    Start this claim

    State ID 966648622

  • Strong match

    Frances M Kates

    Savings account · Van Nuys, CA

    Reported by California Federal Bank

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    $280.45
    Start this claim

    State ID 5488101

  • Likely match

    Frances Kitts

    Cash held by the State · Grass Valley, CA

    Reported by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $2,164.90
    Start this claim

    State ID 12932450

  • Likely match

    Frances J Kautz

    Unpaid wages · Lancaster, CA

    Reported by Wal-mart Stores Inc

    Someone has already filed a claim on this property. It may be you, or it may not.

    $673.20
    Start this claim

    State ID 18995950

  • Likely match

    Frances J Kautz

    Unpaid wages · Lancaster, CA

    Reported by Wal-mart Stores Inc

    Someone has already filed a claim on this property. It may be you, or it may not.

    $670.28
    Start this claim

    State ID 18995949

  • Likely match

    Frances J Kautz

    Unpaid wages · Lancaster, CA

    Reported by Wal-mart Stores Inc

    Someone has already filed a claim on this property. It may be you, or it may not.

    $669.27
    Start this claim

    State ID 18995948

  • Likely match

    Frances J Kautz

    Unpaid wages · Lancaster, CA

    Reported by Wal-mart Stores Inc

    Someone has already filed a claim on this property. It may be you, or it may not.

    $626.26
    Start this claim

    State ID 18995952

  • Likely match

    Frances J Kautz

    Unpaid wages · Lancaster, CA

    Reported by Wal-mart Stores Inc

    $120.14
    Start this claim

    State ID 18995951

  • Worth checking

    Francis W Kitts

    Stocks or securities · Grass Valley, CA

    Reported by Metlife Inc

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $715.19 Metlife Inc
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    State ID 16302609

  • Worth checking

    F H Kautz

    Unpaid dividends · Los Angeles, CA

    Reported by Meridian Resource Corp/omni Exploration (03745)

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $1,945.28
    Start this claim

    State ID 14240069

  • Worth checking

    Franklin Kates

    Cash held by the State · Lancaster, CA

    Reported by Comerica Bank

    $254.42
    Start this claim

    State ID 1033650410

  • Worth checking

    Franklin Kates

    Cash held by the State · Lancaster, CA

    Reported by Continental Exchange Solutions Inc

    $200.00
    Start this claim

    State ID 1004099017

  • Worth checking

    Franklin Kates

    Deposit held · Lancaster, CA

    Reported by Southern California Edison Company

    $194.20
    Start this claim

    State ID 1033290811

  • Worth checking

    Frankie A Kates

    Unpaid wages · Tulare, CA

    Reported by Wal-mart Stores Inc. And Subsidiaries

    $172.79
    Start this claim

    State ID 1003183654

  • Worth checking

    Franklin Kates

    Cash held by the State · Pls Vrds Pnsl, CA

    Reported by Elevance Health Inc

    $155.00
    Start this claim

    State ID 1032798931

  • Worth checking

    Florence E Kates

    Unpaid dividends · Pasadena,

    Reported by Keyspan Energy Corporation C/o First Chicago Trust Company Of Ny

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    $142.50
    Start this claim

    State ID 12916580

Tell us if this name comes up again

Banks and insurers hand accounts to the State Controller roughly twice a year, and the file grows every time. We will keep checking this name against each new file and write to you if it appears.

Only about this name, and you can stop it from any email. We do not sell or share the address.

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.

There is no deadline. The State holds unclaimed property indefinitely, so nothing here is urgent.

A Second State File

1 probate estate carries that name

Separately from unclaimed accounts, the State Controller publishes the estates of deceased people that reached it through county probate. This file names the decedent and the heirs on record, which the main file does not.

1 more under that name that can no longer be claimed

When an estate goes unclaimed long enough, the State takes permanent title to it and no claim will be paid afterwards. These are shown because knowing what happened to a relative’s estate is worth something even when the money is gone. Nobody can recover these — if a firm offers to, that alone tells you what they are.

  • Katz Frances Werner

    Probate estate · Los Angeles County · 1986

    Matched on Katz Frances Werner (decedent)

    Permanently escheated — the State now owns this and it cannot be claimed.

    $0.00 closed

    State ID 956811259
    Case NW P 16727

Fees on probated estates are not capped by the ten per cent rule that governs ordinary unclaimed property. How estate claims work, including what we would charge and why the difference exists.

Commissioned California Notary Public $15,000 surety bond Fee capped at 10% by state law Nothing owed until you are paid
10%
Maximum fee, by statute
Code of Civil Procedure §1582 caps any recovery fee at ten percent of the property returned.
$1,000
Notarization threshold
Cash claims at or above this must be notarized. So must all securities and safe deposit boxes.
7 days
Data refresh cycle
The State Controller republishes the full record set every Thursday, and we rebuild our copy from it.
None
Deadline to claim
California places no time limit. The State holds unclaimed property indefinitely.

How This Search Differs from the Official One

The State Controller’s own search matches what you type, and nothing else. Ours also finds maiden names, married names, initials, common misspellings, hyphen variants, and business names with and without their suffixes — because the record was created by whoever held the account, not by you.

Every result comes from the Controller’s own published file, which we rebuild weekly. Each one carries the State’s own property ID, so the record you are looking at is traceable to the source rather than to us.

What We Search Under

  • Your name as typed, plus initials and middle-name variants
  • Maiden and former married names, if you tell us them
  • Common misspellings and transposed letters
  • Former addresses in California
  • Business names with and without Inc., LLC, Co. and DBAs

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.

California Unclaimed Property Services is a private asset recovery firm. We are not the California State Controller’s Office.

Find out in About Thirty Seconds

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.