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Background Private Investigations
Empire Pacific Investigative Services
backgroundcheckpi.com
Licensed Private Investigators
Nationwide Toll Free 888.404.3747
License Number: PI 16166
 Empire Pacific Investigative Services Inc., custom tailors every asset investigations to your specific needs. Whether Pre-Litigation or Post-Judgment collection, we are able to uncover hidden assets.
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Contrary to popular belief, income is not only what a person earns. "Unearned income" is considered to be income as well. That is, income that is not earned through a paycheck. Examples may include:
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Rental incomes,
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Dividends and
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Interest from stock ownership, etc.
Virtually everything that belongs to the obligor can be construed as income or converted into income  for your usage. You just have to know where to look and what to look for. A Judgment is just a piece of paper until collected. Judgments are not just a debt, they are a court order to pay and they carry all the powers of the court in order to collect it.
Locating Assets can assist in satisfying a debt as well as help in contesting bankruptcies or proving fraud, but it is important to be sure you can collect before spending time and money on it.
Another method for hiding cash involves transferring assets to another entity. Asset search firms are frequently asked to locate money and other assets that the client believes have been conveyed by a subject to a wife, child, business, friend or other party.
 Locating and disclosing bank account information has become the most controversial areas in the asset search industry. One of the unanswered questions is whether the unauthorized identification and publication of bank account information constitutes an invasion of privacy. Firms use various techniques to uncover information including the credit and collection networks, information subpoenas and pretext calls. Some asset search companies no longer provide this kind of information and end users should consider the risk associated with requesting any type of liquid asset report. It is wise to make sure assets were not moved over to relatives, wife's maiden names, or in-laws, etc. Find out the maiden name if you don't already know it. Start with marital records research in the county courthouse if applicable.
 In hiding assets, an individual may deed over his property to his spouse, child or other friendly party. For most asset search firms, fraudulent conveyance of real estate is easier to track than cash transactions. Real estate transactions involving an individual as buyer or seller can be identified using on-line services or records at registries of deeds. A fraudulent conveyance of real estate might be picked up as a transaction involving the subject as seller, for nominal consideration, and the subject's wife as buyer. The date of the transfer might also be suspiciously close to the date of a loan default, bankruptcy filing or auto accident. Most of the time, we find, hidden assets are of the liquid variety -- in bank accounts, stock and bonds, mutual funds. Other venues include real property like houses and land, as well as vehicles. Less frequently, defendants try to move assets out of the reach of creditors, litigants or "enemies" by hiding these assets cleverly in such places as life insurance, annuities, offshore accounts, mortgage or credit card pay-downs, or most commonly, by transferring assets to a spouse, friend or business entity.
The most sophisticated asset-hiding schemes involve transfers to living trusts or offshore trust accounts. Assets that are transferred deliberately to avoid payment to creditors, litigants or other parties are generally called "preferential" or fraudulent transfers. If these transfers occur in anticipation of or shortly before or during litigation or bankruptcy, they are reversible in most states under the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Acts (UFTA). There are completely legitimate ways to shield and transfer assets away from creditors, but these trusts or estate plans are set up by asset protection or estate professionals well outside of the duress modes of litigation, bankruptcy or judgments.
Asset Investigations: Phase I
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Phase I
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Description
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Cost
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Asset Search
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- 1. Includes name and Social Security number verification
- 2. Includes Credit Heathers
- 3. Includes unique address history scan searches for asset related
- 4. Includes DMV search for vehicles owned (limited states)
- 5. Includes Dun & Bradstreet
- 6. Includes Delaware Corporation
- 7. Basic asset profile. Due diligence for assets when policy limits are offered.
- 8. Includes Internet Domains
- 9. Includes National UCC Fillings
- 10. Includes statewide bankruptcies, judgments - with dates and amounts, evictions, foreclosures and tax liens
- 11. Includes real property & National Property, equity assessment, including all trust deeds and current market value
- 12. Includes real property search by name and address
- 13. Includes limited partnerships, statewide professional licenses, Board of Equalization & Alcoholic Beverage Control Licenses, FAA Aircraft, watercraft, pilot licenses
- 14. Includes fictitious business (DBAs), corporate president and agent for service searches, Uniform Commercial Code filings, Superior civil court cases, etc
- 15. Includes Social Security fraud scan for aliases, false Social Security numbers and names of relatives
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Fixed Fee
$ 475.00
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Asset Investigations: Phase II
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Phase II
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Description
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Cost
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Asset Search
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- Includes name and Social Security number verification
- Includes Credit Heathers
- Includes unique address history scan searches for asset related
- Includes DMV search for vehicles owned (limited states)
- Includes Dun & Bradstreet
- Includes Business Profile
- Includes Delaware Corporation
- Basic asset profile. Due diligence for assets when policy limits are offered.
- Includes Internet Domains
- Includes National UCC Fillings
- Includes statewide bankruptcies, judgments - with dates and amounts, evictions, foreclosures and tax liens
- Includes real property & National Property, equity assessment, including all trust deeds and current market value
- Includes real property search by name and address
- Includes limited partnerships, statewide professional licenses, Board of Equalization & Alcoholic Beverage Control Licenses, FAA Aircraft, watercraft, pilot licenses
- Includes fictitious business (DBAs), corporate president and agent for service searches, Uniform Commercial Code filings, Superior civil court cases, etc
- Includes Social Security fraud scan for aliases, false Social Security numbers and names of relatives
- Includes research for financial institution affiliations
- Includes one affiliation - $350 for each additional affiliation & $50 for each additional accounts same bank.
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Fixed Fee
$ 975.00
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Asset Investigations: Phase III
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Phase III
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Description
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Cost
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Asset Search
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- Includes name and Social Security number verification
- Includes Credit Heathers
- Includes unique address history scan searches for asset related
- Includes DMV search for vehicles owned (limited states)
- Includes Dun & Bradstreet
- Includes Business Profile
- Includes Delaware Corporation
- Basic asset profile. Due diligence for assets when policy limits are offered.
- Includes Internet Domains
- Includes National UCC Fillings
- Includes statewide bankruptcies, judgments - with dates and amounts, evictions, foreclosures and tax liens
- Includes real property & National Property, equity assessment, including all trust deeds and current market value
- Includes real property search by name and address
- Includes limited partnerships, statewide professional licenses, Board of Equalization & Alcoholic Beverage Control Licenses, FAA Aircraft, watercraft, pilot licenses
- Includes fictitious business (DBAs), corporate president and agent for service searches, Uniform Commercial Code filings, Superior civil court cases, etc
- Includes Social Security fraud scan for aliases, false Social Security numbers and names of relatives
- Includes research for financial institution affiliations
- Includes one affiliation - $350 for each additional affiliation & $50 for each additional accounts same bank.
- Includes nationwide research for financial institution affiliations, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and safe deposit boxes
- Includes source of income search
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Fixed Fee
$ 1,725.00
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Asset Research Investigations 
