Sovereign Investigations

Important - Financial Search Parameters

All investigation fees are non-contingent on positive results. Normal turnaround time is now 9  to 12 business days due to the Pandemic.

All financial investigations require a full legal name and social security number (SSN) or federal employment identification number (FEIN).  If you do not have the full legal name we can develop that data with a budget of $50 to $100.  If you do not have the SSN the fee is $50 if you have a current or previous residence address and full name, otherwise the fee is $100 to $250 depending on the data you can provide us.  If you do not have the FEIN the fee is $300 to $600 depending on the state of original registration.  You must have a current or previous business address and full legal name otherwise we will charge additional fees to develop this identification information.

Our definition of "primary bank affiliation" is the first banking organization where we develop deposit accounts.  Our definition of "secondary bank affiliation" is the second financial organization where we develop deposit accounts.  There is no way to predict where a target will maintain the most valuable deposit accounts and we do not guarantee our search will identify that relationship.  However, in the vast majority of cases deposit accounts found at two different financial organizations usually include the most valuable deposit accounts.  Most targets do not maintain deposit accounts with three or more banking organizations.  If one is interested in searching and obtaining details on deposits at more than two banking organizations we can price the investigation for that purpose.

Standard Financial Searches are structured to identify up to two active banking affiliations.  It frequently costs much less to probe an institution and find negative results than to develop active bank deposit accounts.  The cost in developing the account title, approximate balance, and branch address to effect a levy consumes much of the budget.  As bank deposit accounts are found fewer institutions are searched.  If the client is already aware of two banking affiliations and they are still active, then probing those two banks will consume the bulk of the budget.  One can either increase the budget so additional banks can be searched or bypass the two known banks so the original budget can focus on new banking affiliations.

It is the responsibility of the client to share financial information that may help us provide a better result.  If there are specific accounts and institutions that are not desired to be included in the effort, we need to be informed prior to the start of the investigation.  An additional budget will be required to examine any new financial accounts provided to this office after we have already completed our investigation.

When the husband and wife are ordered simultaneously there will be a 10% discount on each fee and the results will be combined into one report. Spouses have to be using the same surname and primary residence address to qualify for the discount.  Our financial searches do not include skiptracing. Choose a state to focus the investigation. If you need a confirmed address then add the appropriate Locate Investigation.  It will be discounted 20% when combined with a Banking/Employment/Asset Investigation. The discounted locate fee cannot receive an additional 10% spousal discount.

Trusts require a separate budget.  If we are already searching under an individual's SSN the the trust uses the same SSN as a primary tax identifier, than you can add that trust entity to the search with an extra 50% fee.  One can try searching both under the individual's name and trust name for one fee when they are using the same SSN as a tax identifier.  But we do not guarantee the results will be a comprehensive as when a separate budget is provided.  If the trust is using a FEIN than a separate budget is required to search that entity.