Skip Trace
/ˈskɪp treɪs/
Definitions
- (n.) The process of locating a person's whereabouts, often used in legal or debt collection contexts to serve documents or enforce judgments.
The investigator performed a skip trace to find the debtor who had moved without leaving a forwarding address.
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- skip trace
- skip traces
- skip tracing
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Commentary
Skip tracing is a specialized investigative technique with important procedural uses in serving legal documents and enforcing court orders.
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