SHERI3 said:
What is the name of your state? NEW YORK
I NEED INFO ON HOW I CAN FIND A DEADBEAT DAD. HE IS ORDERED TO PAY SUPPORT AND HASN'T FOR YEARS. HE IS STILL IN THE AREA AND WON'T EVEN SHOW UP AT COURT. I NEED A FREE SITE I CAN GO TO TO FIND OUT HIS ADDRESS & #. I DO HAVE A S.S. # FOR HIM. ANYONE WITH INFO PLEASE HELP! THANKS.
Since you have his SS#, you have a great advantage than if not. I have answered similiar requests many times on this site. It's in the archives. But I will include it one more time. It's long.
A good detective agency could do this or if you know the social security # you could do a credit report on your own and probably find him. Also, if you have a United check cashing company near you ask them to do a trace. They have pretty good programs out there on how to find someone. Gives all known addresses, next to kin next to kin, neighbors, etc. They use it for finding peoples alias's and tracking people who write bad checks.
Have you used one of those online public record searches? They cost about 20 bucks for a 24hr peirod, and they are very useful. I used one to find out the address where my stbx wife was living when she up and ran out on me and took our child.
Go to any good Internet Search engine (Google, AltaVista, Yahoo, etc) and type in the person's first and last name. You never know what you might find. Some of the search engines have People Finder sections that will list everybody with that name, similar names, etc. When using a people finder expect to get lots of feedback/results if the last name is common (Smith, Jones).
Having worked for the child support office in Texas, I can tell you that it is very, very difficult to locate someone without their SSN. Not impossible, but nearly, because most data bases used by our child support office did runs based on name and SSN (or a combination of information like name and DOB). Having just a name and previous address usually didn't do any good. Having a name and DOB is good, but still didn't always come up with any matches. Generally, SSN was the only matches that our system came up with. Of course CA and TX are different and I don't know what info they have access to. However, I assume that most, if not all, of their searches are automatically computer generated so if they say they can't find him, they mean their computer data base matches came up empty based on not having his SSN. That being said, here are some things you and your GF can do to possibly get more info on the ex.........(see numbers 1-6 below).
1.Tell your girlfriend to go through everything in the house, maybe she has overlooked an old payroll stub or some piece of paperwork that has the ex's SSN, old driver's license number or some other useful bit of info. Also, if they bought anything together, like furniture or something, there may be info on that paperwork.
2. You or girlfriend should try running a search on his name on the internet using Google or some other search engine. It might be time consuming if he is mentioned more than once over the years (or has a common name) but if you find something you can at least track his movements, gather leads about where to look next and/or, possibly, get a current or semi-current location so you at least know what town to look in.
4. Use an internet phone books to look him up (try more than one). Maybe he's listed somewhere. There are some that don't require you to specify the state to do a search so you can pull up the entire country with one search. Again, it's time consuming but it is possible to methodically run his name in every state, if needed. Of course if he has a very common name, this will be problematic. Also, if his parent's names are known run an internet search on them (general and phone book), maybe they are listed somewhere.
5. If he works in fairly specialized field, run a search for all the companies that do that type of work. Maybe he's listed as an employee on their website. If he works in a very common field, this will not work and, even if it's a specialized field, they may not list their employees.
6. Pay to use a service like PeopleSearch. If you have a name and dob you might get some good results. If you have only a name it's probably not worth it. If you still can't get a lead from all of that, he may not be able to be found and hiring a private investigator again may not do any good. PI's have access to more information than a regular person but they still need something to go on. However, if you do get *some * leads but still can't find his current location, a private investigator may be able to do something with the new info. Take the new info to one and see what they say. Good Luck!
If your girlfriend knew who his employer was 8 years ago, she might be able to get his social security number from them (assuming they are still in business and may still have HR records around). Also, if she knew which college he went to, she may be able to track down a SS # thru the college. The SS # is often the student ID number.
Google "death index" and put his info in there. When someone absolutely cannot be found, it might be because they are dead...
