Finding People
So you’ve got a matter you need to deal with in Court, but you don’t know where the other person is? Whether it’s a Divorce Application, Family Law Application, Debt Claim, Consumer Dispute, or something else, you need to know where the other person is, so you can send and serve various documents upon them.
The skills of finding people are quite extensive and specialised and often rely on searching subscription databases. Many of these databases aren’t practical to subscribe to yourself for one off searches, due to expenses and confusing interfaces and volumes of available data. That said, to the people who work with them each day, they contain a wealth of useful information to track down your missing person.
There’s a special name in the trade for these magicians of locating. They are commonly known as ‘skip tracers’. The term originates from the debt collection industry, where in tracking down a debt, the company would send an agent to the last known address, only find a vacant property or new residents at the address. The action of the debtor leaving without informing their creditors is referred to as a ‘skip’, hence the term ‘skip tracers’ or ‘skip tracing’.
Professional skip tracers rely on a gamete of electronic tools, which they cross reference, filtering through to trace the the path of the person sought, with the end goal of obtaining a current address. While not completely reliable, positive results are very high for the experienced skip tracers.
Those businesses that choose in particular to focus their business solely around skip tracing tend to become the market leaders in skills, quite often seeing connections in cross reference information, which others may miss.
We have developed our business to centre solely around process serving, one of the most regularly asked questions is ‘how can I find someone’. If you’re needing to track a person or people in Australia, here is a short list of businesses, who can assist you with genuine skip tracing.
Skip Tracers in Australia
| Identisearch P.O Box 132 Rosanna, VIC 3084 03 9811 4707 admin@identisearch.com.au www.identisearch.com.au |  |
| People Trackers PO Box 86 Canterbury, Vic, 3125 admin@peopletrackers.com.au www.peopletrackers.com.au |  |
