I mean the city and state is known but not the other portion of the address. Did a search by phone number produce many addresses? Did social media search and only saw phone numbers. I may have time to try sending mail to last known address with return service requested but don't know if that's a viable option with the postal service any longer and don't want to chance not being ready.
Would any of you know of a reliable online service where I can pay for a person search or how to go about this offline? Working on guardianship.
if this us the case, I’d fold it and hire an atty who is familiar with guardianships and let them take over. Doing things in probate court is very much for at and time sensitive and attorneys who work PC have all the documents at the ready, properly formatted for how the court likes them and has it set up to be entered via a portal directly to PC and all attached to their bar card.
You have a big family, right? Like 10 siblings? If this is at all accurate, I’d want to get an atty now to do the guardianship and also to clean up everything they can so that when your folks die their estate is clearly defined as to heirs. If 1 or 2 or 3 are difficult to reach now, expect someone (or thier spouse) to surface after a death all complaining and carping over what was done with the folks fund$ years ago. Once guardianship is approved, then you as the newly appointed guardian can use folks $ to pay the atty or reinbursement whomever paid atty fees.
Personally I think DIY guardianship or opening probate is asking for problems later on. It’s a gift for anyone who wants to challenge your actions done. Once the atty gets guardianship done or gets probate opened and your named Executor or Guardian, the actions afterwards those imo you can DIY if you get the formats or sample of future documents needed for court staff.
"ask the court’s permission to serve them by publishing a notice in a newspaper."
from:
Documents You Must Serve
Each of the above persons must be served with a copy of the Petition and the Citation. If you do not know where to find some of the relatives, you can ask the court’s permission to serve them by publishing a notice in a newspaper. For more information about how to serve these documents, please visit the pages about how to serve the relatives for children and for adults.
It was helpful for me, if a little disconcerting what's available for little effort.
It's okay if you cannot, many families are estranged.
Do your siblings have any children?
If you knew their friends growing up, can you ask one of them to "friend" them on fb?
There is a Federal Law, the freedom of information act.
You may qualify for the local sheriff to find your siblings based upon your need to contact family concerning your Mom.
Enter the phone number.
Pay their small fee to get the address.
https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/how-can-i-serve-someone-if-i-don-t-know-where-they-live-34099
But, I will give the previous ones to my attorney on Monday. I so hate this but feel it's for the best to attempt guardianship.
You only have to make a good faith effort.
If you can't find them, you can't find them. If the courts want to, they can usually locate someone and get them served but, it would have to be something major.
Just make every effort in good faith to serve and you will be fine.