Background Checks, Asset Searches & Probate Investigations in Boca Raton, FL
Find out who someone really is, where the money went, and what an estate actually holds, before you sign, settle, or trust.
Free consultation. Flat-fee pricing on most searches.
Boca Wealth Is Old, Layered, and Often Contested
Boca Raton holds more generational wealth per square mile than almost anywhere in Florida, and it holds it in trusts, family partnerships, second and third marriages, and real estate titled every way imaginable. When a divorce, a judgment, a probate dispute, or a guardianship turns on what someone actually owns or who someone actually is, a database printout is where the work starts, and nowhere near where it ends.
Wasser Investigations has traced assets and pulled records for Palm Beach County attorneys and families since 1985. Travis Wasser runs each search himself, cross-checks it against county, state, and federal filings, and follows the paper into the trusts and entities where Boca assets sit.
Attorneys, Heirs, Fiduciaries, and Families
Discovery Is Only as Good as What You Know to Ask For
Family law attorneys use us to find the condo titled to a trust before the financial affidavit is signed. Probate and trust litigators use us to locate assets a personal representative left off the inventory, and to find heirs. Collection attorneys use us to locate property before spending money on a writ.
You Need to Know Before You Commit, or Before It Is Too Late
A parent’s new companion. A caregiver with access to the checkbook. A sibling who was named personal representative and stopped returning calls. A fiancé with a past in another state. A contractor bidding on the renovation. We check the record so you are not the last to find out.
Background Checks
Criminal history
Palm Beach County, statewide Florida, and federal court records, plus checks in the other states where Boca residents tend to have lived. We read the case files, because an arrest with a dropped charge means something different from a conviction.
Civil litigation
Lawsuits, judgments, liens, evictions, injunctions, and prior probate or guardianship disputes.
Identity and history
Verified name, dates of birth, addresses going back decades, prior marriages, relatives, and known associates.
Employment, credentials, and licensing
Verification of degrees, professional licenses, caregiver and home-health credentials, and work history. We call the source.
Reputation and online presence
Public social media, news, and forum activity, preserved with dates before the subject cleans it up.
Asset and Probate Searches
Real property
Deeds, mortgages, and tax records across every county where the subject has a footprint, plus the trusts and LLCs holding property on the subject’s behalf. A house in Royal Palm titled to a family trust still shows up.
Trusts, business interests, and partnerships
Sunbiz filings, family limited partnerships, officer and registered agent connections, and out-of-state entities. We map the structure that connects back to one person.
Boats, aircraft, and vehicles
Vessel registrations through the FWC and Coast Guard documentation, aircraft through the FAA registry, and registered and titled vehicles.
Estate asset location and heir search
Assets a personal representative did not disclose, property transferred before death, accounts moved under a power of attorney, and the location of heirs and beneficiaries who cannot be found.
Elder financial exploitation
Transfers, new deeds, changed beneficiaries, and new “friends” with signing authority. We document the pattern so an attorney can act under Florida’s exploitation statute.
Bank and brokerage accounts
Federal law limits how these can be located. We work within it: public records, litigation history, subpoena support, and coordination with your attorney’s forensic accountant. We do not use pretexting. Any investigator promising account balances without a subpoena is violating the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and putting your case at risk.
The Report
- A written findings report with every source cited and the underlying records attached
- Property, vessel, and business schedules formatted for attachment to a motion or an estate inventory
- An entity map for multi-company or multi-trust subjects
- An assessment of what is verified, what is probable, and what needs a subpoena
- Investigator availability for affidavit or testimony on how the records were obtained
Questions About Background, Asset, and Probate Searches
My father died and I think my stepmother is hiding assets from the estate.
This is one of the most common calls we get from Boca. We inventory what public records show, compare it to the estate filing, and document transfers made before and after death so your probate attorney can pursue them.
Can you find assets my spouse is hiding in a divorce?
Very often, yes. Real estate, companies, boats, and vehicles leave public records even when titled to a trust. For bank and brokerage accounts, we identify where they likely exist so your attorney can subpoena them.
How is this different from an online background check site?
Those sites scrape databases that are often wrong, stale, or missing court records entirely. We pull the actual filings, verify identity so two people with the same name do not get confused, and read the documents.
How long does a search take?
Most background checks come back in two to five business days. Asset and probate searches that cross state lines or involve multiple entities take one to three weeks.
What does it cost?
Most searches are a flat fee quoted in writing before we start. Multi-entity and estate work is estimated by the hour.
Know Before You Decide
Tell us who you need to know about and why. We will tell you what the records can show and what it will cost.
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