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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.

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I am not in the US, but can't you hire process servers to find them and serve them?
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So your DIYing a guardianship? No attorney?
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.
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answry Sep 2021
I am using an attorney. There were ten of us. Two are deceased (one died in a car accident and another brain tumor). So removing me from the list leave seven that would need to be served. Three addresses obtained from some of the sources below have been verified as accurate just by calling the local tax assessor office. So now I have four that I have not been able to confirm just yet.
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This from a Family Law Self-Help Center:

"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.
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Been verified and instant checkmate are websites that have helped me when I was doing some genealogy, They have current/ former names, and possible relatives, social media, etc , even current and former email/phone numbers, employment. There is a small fee associated, but you just need name , age and state, and you can winnow down the results from there.

It was helpful for me, if a little disconcerting what's available for little effort.
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Is there a reason you cannot just call them up and talk to them, meeting up with them?
It's okay if you cannot, many families are estranged.

Do your siblings have any children?
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answry Sep 2021
I did try to get the address from another one of my sisters during a normal conversation long ago when guardianship was just a thought. She replied I don't want anyone to have my address right now and see how I'm living I'm struggling right now. If I had been able to get that address that would have taken care of at least two more.
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If this is a sibling, can you "friend" them on fb?
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.
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Go to Whitepages.com
Enter the phone number.
Pay their small fee to get the address.
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If you have the mailing address, or a P.O. Box, (it used to be that ) you could take the paper to the Post Office, pay $1.00 fee for the home address on file.
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Useful site:

https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/how-can-i-serve-someone-if-i-don-t-know-where-they-live-34099
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I would be surprised if this produces anything (current addresses) because when I was going to my parent's home on a daily basis, the siblings used our parent's address for their mail.

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.
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Answry, send it certified mail to the last known address with the forwarding and return requested. (If they put a change of address that has expired, this will get a label with the address put on the envelope so you have the new address.)

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.
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