Learn about escheat, the government process of claiming unclaimed assets, and discover how you can reclaim them under state ...

Charles J Read is a CPA, USTCP, author of The Payroll Book: A Guide for Small Businesses and Startups, and the Founder of GetPayroll. If your company issues payments of any type to anyone and just one ...

Each year billions of dollars’ worth of property is abandoned all over the U.S. When that property is something as tangible as buildings or land, there is no question about who takes it over. The ...

There are all sorts of reasons you might have lost track of money. Think of a time you switched jobs but didn’t roll over your work-sponsored 401(k) account. Or perhaps you took the money in your ...

Financial advisors (FAs) are a critical link—and often the last line of defense—in a process that brokerage firms, mutual fund companies and other asset custodians are establishing to protect client ...

Just as nature abhors a vacuum so the law abhors a vacant ownership of anything. In the U. S. the States are the original and ultimate proprietors of all lands within their jurisdictions. And the ...

What should happen to hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money? That's what was at stake in Delaware v. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Today, the Supreme Court ruled against Delaware, holding ...

Note: This original episode ran in 2020. Escheat show (Update) Walter Schramm did everything right as an investor — at least according to the philosophy of Warren Buffett. So how come he lost a small ...

Our State & Local Tax and Unclaimed Property teams analyze a recent federal court decision that could affect how property owners challenge Delaware’s escheat and liquidation of securities, ...

States are getting more aggressive claiming abandoned property to use for state purposes, a process known as escheat. But sometimes the holdings don't feel so abandoned to the people who own them.