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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.
This search covers properties worth $100 and above. Smaller properties exist and are claimable — they are on the State’s own site, not in this index. What this covers
96 records carry that name
The 17 shown below are worth $146,480 between them. 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 793 records under the surname Vela, worth $585,271. See every city and first name they are recorded under
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Strong match
Maxine P Vela
Reported by Citation Oil & Gas Corp
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Worth checking
Madeline Vela
Reported by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Worth checking
M D Villa
Reported by Prudential Financial Inc
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Worth checking
M Prescott Viola
Reported by Service Corporation Intl.
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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M Villa
Reported by Union Bank N.a.
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Worth checking
M Waelty Viola
Reported by Click N Close Inc. Fka Mid America Mort
Held jointly with 1 other person
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Worth checking
Maricella Vela
Reported by Loya Casualty Insurance Company
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Worth checking
M Allen Est Viola
Reported by Sentinel Peak Resources California Llc
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Worth checking
Miguel Sandoval Vela
Reported by Cenlar Fsb
Held jointly with 1 other person
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Miguel Sandoval Vela
Reported by Cenlar Fsb
Held jointly with 1 other person
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Maria Vela
Reported by Western Union Financial Services Inc
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Worth checking
Maria D Vela
Reported by Golden Escrow Inc
Held jointly with 1 other person
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
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Manuel Vela
Reported by Fire Insurance Exchange (manual Entries)
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Miriam S Vela
Reported by Union Bank N.a.
Held jointly with 1 other person
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M E Valle
Reported by Prudential Equity Group Llc
Held jointly with 1 other person
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Worth checking
Vela
Reported by Select Portfolio Servicing Inc
Someone has already filed a claim on this property. It may be you, or it may not.
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Worth checking
Maria T Vela
Reported by Metlife Inc
A claim on this will have to be notarized.
Showing the 17 most valuable of 96. That is a common name — add a first name or a city to narrow it, and try any former spelling.
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.
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 is still open, holding $45,457.
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Vela Manuel
Matched on Vela Manuel (decedent)
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.
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.
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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.