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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.

16 exact, and 10 close matches worth a look

Worth $54,446 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 131 records under the surname Cortese, worth $94,106. See every city and first name they are recorded under

  • Strong match

    Joe L Cortese

    Stocks or securities · Beakeley, CA

    Reported by Occidental Petroleum Corporation

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $1,067.28 Occidental Petroleum Corp New
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    State ID 16353517

  • Strong match

    Joe Cortese

    Escrow balance · Canyon Country, CA

    Reported by Landamerica Financial Group Inc

    $175.00
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    State ID 954489054

  • Strong match

    Joe L Cortese

    Unpaid dividends · Beakeley, CA

    Reported by Occidental Petroleum Corporation

    $106.75
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    State ID 16353516

  • Likely match

    Joe Cortez

    Uncashed check · Ventura, CA

    Reported by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $3,404.11
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    State ID 1017956138

  • Likely match

    Joe Cortez

    Uncashed check · Hawthorne, CA

    Reported by Specialty Risk Service Llc

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $1,973.38
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    State ID 986019443

  • Likely match

    Joe P Cordoza

    Cash held by the State · Artesia, CA

    Reported by American National Insurance Company

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $1,193.00
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    State ID 1727798

  • Worth checking

    Joao Cardoso

    Savings account · Hanford, CA

    Reported by Kings Federal Credit Union

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $12,107.65
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    State ID 1040320244

  • Worth checking

    Ja Cortez

    Pension or retirement funds · Huntington Park, CA

    Reported by U.s. Bank - Pars

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $2,228.00
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    State ID 975651098

  • Worth checking

    J D Curtis

    Stocks or securities · Los Angeles, CA

    Reported by Frank E Best Inc Common %ssb

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $11,958.00 Frank E Best Inccap
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    State ID 13033780

  • Worth checking

    J A Cortes

    Uncashed check · Los Angeles, CA

    Reported by Wells Fargo Bank Na

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

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $6,933.78
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    State ID 956092749

  • Worth checking

    Cortese

    Escrow balance

    Reported by Gb Escrow Inc.

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

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $2,509.39
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    State ID 959105720

  • Worth checking

    John Cortese

    Cash held by the State · San Jose, CA

    Reported by State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins Co

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $2,383.54
    Start this claim

    State ID 1009908478

  • Worth checking

    Joseph C Cortese

    Uncashed check · Orange, CA

    Reported by Wells Fargo Bank Na (apecs 1009)

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $2,304.34
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    State ID 1032860342

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    Jessica Cortese

    Cash held by the State

    Reported by Caliber Home Loans Inc

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $1,531.28
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    State ID 1036889151

  • Worth checking

    J R Cortes

    Unclaimed refund · Canoga Park, CA

    Reported by Jpmorgan Chase Bank Na (500005)

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $1,510.24
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    State ID 1013771277

  • Worth checking

    J Cortes

    Cash held by the State · Reseda, CA

    Reported by Aetna Life Insurance Company

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $1,069.00
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    State ID 970803522

  • Worth checking

    Jessica A Cortese

    Escrow balance · Danville, CA

    Reported by Dovenmuehle Mortgage Inc.

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    $611.88
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    State ID 1032317368

  • Worth checking

    Jessica Cortese

    Credit balance · Danville, CA

    Reported by Jpmorgan Chase Bank N.a (300056)

    $248.00
    Start this claim

    State ID 964961153

  • Worth checking

    Jocelynn Cortese

    Unpaid wages · Chino, CA

    Reported by Res-care Inc. And Subsidiaries

    $201.28
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    State ID 1001959403

  • Worth checking

    Joseph Cortese

    Unclaimed refund · Monterey Park, CA

    Reported by Fire Insurance Exchange

    $187.46
    Start this claim

    State ID 957671541

  • Worth checking

    James Cortese

    Cash held by the State · San Mateo, CA

    Reported by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

    $161.00
    Start this claim

    State ID 9547624

  • Worth checking

    Jesse Cortese

    Unclaimed refund

    Reported by Farmers Insurance Exchange

    $143.24
    Start this claim

    State ID 996540304

  • Worth checking

    Jeffrey Cortese

    Cash held by the State · San Jose, CA

    Reported by Paypal

    $120.20
    Start this claim

    State ID 1036701630

  • Worth checking

    Janis Cortese

    Cash held by the State · San Diego, CA

    Reported by Amazon.com Inc. And Subsidiaries

    $114.79
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    State ID 1002275539

  • Worth checking

    Joseph Cortese

    Stocks or securities · San Jose, CA

    Reported by Walt Disney Company (21cf) The

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $102.65 Disney Walt Company
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    State ID 1040489425

  • Worth checking

    Jared D Cortese

    Cash held by the State · Waterford, CA

    Reported by State Of Colorado Controllers Office

    $100.75
    Start this claim

    State ID 1004790994

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.

  • Apostle Richard Marion

    Probate estate · Humboldt County · 2002

    Matched on Curtice Joy Oremus (heir)

    4 heirs named on the State’s record

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

    $0.00 closed

    State ID 956805692
    Case 27578

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.