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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.

11 exact, and 2 close matches worth a look

Worth $11,148 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 220 records under the surname Kester, worth $212,421. See every city and first name they are recorded under

  • Strong match

    Virginia L Kester

    Cash held by the State · Chico, CA

    Reported by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $2,778.01
    Start this claim

    State ID 970665763

  • Strong match

    Virginia L Kester

    Unpaid dividends · Chico, CA

    Reported by Metlife Inc

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $1,493.01 Metlife Inc
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    State ID 977381560

  • Strong match

    Virginia L Kester

    Cash held by the State · Chico, CA

    Reported by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $1,474.81
    Start this claim

    State ID 1025087332

  • Worth checking

    Virgil M Kester

    Stocks or securities · Santa Cruz, CA

    Reported by Dws Technology Fund-s

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $1,875.09 Scudder Technology Funda
    Start this claim

    State ID 15103078

  • Worth checking

    Valerie Kester

    Unclaimed refund · Palmdale, CA

    Reported by Chase Home Finance Llc

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $1,476.70
    Start this claim

    State ID 960291419

  • Worth checking

    Valerie D Kester

    Cash held by the State · Folsom, CA

    Reported by California Physicians Service

    $685.15
    Start this claim

    State ID 978641875

  • Worth checking

    Virgil Kester

    Unclaimed refund · San Francisco, CA

    Reported by Farmers Insurance Exchange

    $232.65
    Start this claim

    State ID 1021042449

  • Worth checking

    Virgil Kester

    Unclaimed refund · Santa Cruz, CA

    Reported by Anesthesia Medical Group Of Santa Cruz

    $217.50
    Start this claim

    State ID 1018335177

  • Worth checking

    Kester

    Unclaimed refund · Running Springs, CA

    Reported by Charter Communications Inc Fka Time Warner Inc

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

    $208.37
    Start this claim

    State ID 1037532496

  • Worth checking

    Virgil M Sr Kester

    Stocks or securities · Watsonville, CA

    Reported by Delaware Balanced Fund A Class

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $208.24 Delaware Grp/delaware Fd A
    Start this claim

    State ID 11858938

  • Worth checking

    Virgil M Sr Kester

    Stocks or securities · Watsonville, CA

    Reported by At&t Corp

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $197.01 At & T Corp
    Start this claim

    State ID 11931169

  • Worth checking

    V J Kister

    Cash held by the State · Newcastle, CA

    Reported by Wells Fargo

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    $170.12
    Start this claim

    State ID 13625564

  • Worth checking

    Virgil M Kester

    Stocks or securities · Santa Cruz, CA

    Reported by Dws Technology Fund-s

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $130.90 Scudder Technology Funda
    Start this claim

    State ID 15103077

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.

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.