Research Service International

DeGraff Building

118 N. Tejon Street, Suite 211

Colorado Springs, Colorado  80903

Telephone: 1-800-721-5043

Fax: 1-800-721-5041

Email: Alan@popp.net


WEB SITE ADDRESS

ResearchServiceInternational.com

Paul Noot started the company in 1959.   His son Alan joined his father after retiring from the police department in 1978.    Research Service International has the ability to locate missing heirs and owners of various interests anywhere in the world.   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 not unusual.

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 international 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 Research Service International.    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.   Research Service International has never lost a single case!

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.    One-third to Research Service International who then pays the attorney for his legal work, and the remaining two-thirds to the client.   

Alan Craig Noot is considered one of the best known Forensic Genealogists.    In order to secure funds for his clients requires that Mr. Noot appear in court and qualify as a legal genealogist.    Mr. Noot 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.    Handwriting experts and DNA testing is not uncommon.   Mr. Noot recently won two DNA cases and recovered over $650,000.00.  One case required exhuming the remains of a man who died in 1981 and whose daughter claimed her father was blood related to woman's unclaimed estate.    The second DNA case required Mr. Noot to locate sample tissue of a deceased man who fathered two sons from different women.    There are many misunderstandings as to what can be done with DNA evidence and what that evidence can "legally" prove or disprove.   

Mr. Noot and his attorneys have also won every case that required an appeal to a higher court, and they currently hold precedence on two cases with respect to adoptions and illegitimacies.