Heir Location Services
Cullen & Associates has the ability to locate missing heirs and owners of various interests anywhere in the United States. The firm works strictly on a contingency fee basis, and fees are usually one-third of the assets recovered on behalf of the found heirs or beneficiaries. A forty percent fee is required if any particular case goes to trial.
There are various aspects to the company’s Finder’s Fee. First, the company actively expends time, effort, and expense, in trying to locate and identify abandoned or unclaimed assets, such as insurance policies, oil & gas interests, timber and mining claims, and missing or unknown heirs to estates and trusts. Next, the company and their associates try to identify and locate the rightful claimants. Once the beneficiaries are located and have agreed to the contingency fee arrangement, the recovery process begins with the employment of legal counsel at the sole expense of Cullen & Associates. Both the firm and their legal counsel then pursue the claim regardless of their costs or expenses. This is why a one-third fee is a minimum.
Once the funds are secured on behalf of a client, the attorney deposits the money into his Attorney/Client Trust Account which is monitored by the State Bar Association. From the trust account the attorney then issues two separate checks. The fee is normally two-fifths, and a minimum of one-third of the net total of the estate. Cullen & Associates then pays the attorney for his legal work, and the remaining two-thirds to the client.
Eric Cullen is considered one of the best Investigators in Oklahoma. In order to secure funds for his clients requires that Mr. Cullen appear in court, present his qualifications and present evidence that all heirs to the particular estate have been located and notified. Mr. Cullen obtains all the required vital records in order to establish heirship, identity, or a connection to an unclaimed asset. Expert witnesses are sometimes called upon in order to win a case, i.e. handwriting experts and DNA testing is not uncommon. There are many misunderstandings as to what can be done with DNA evidence and what that evidence can “legally” prove or disprove.