Shreveport Skip Tracing and People Search
The federal statistical area called Shreveport-Bossier City is three parishes wide, and each parish answers to a different numbered judicial district. Louisiana does something no neighboring state does with its land records: the officer who records your deed is the same elected officer who keeps the trial court’s case files. One person here can therefore leave a mortgage in one clerk’s conveyance book, a lawsuit in a second clerk’s minutes, and a small civil matter in a city court whose authority stops dead at a municipal boundary. Around all of it run two state lines, and Caddo Parish sits against both of them. This page sets out which clerk holds what, which court number belongs to which parish, and the point at which a Louisiana index can no longer answer the question. The research is done for a purpose the law permits, by people who hold no investigator’s license and claim none. Take everything here as general information about public records rather than as legal advice.
Caddo, Bossier and DeSoto in one paragraph
Shreveport skip tracing is a routing exercise before it is a search. Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:751 makes the clerks of the district courts the parish registers of conveyances and recorders of mortgages, so one elected officer holds land records and court records alike. In this metro that officer exists three times: the Caddo Parish Clerk of Court in Shreveport, whose office keeps mortgages, conveyances, marriage licenses, civil suits, criminal cases and the minutes of the First Judicial District Court; the Bossier Parish Clerk of Court at Benton, serving the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District; and the DeSoto Parish Clerk of Court at Mansfield, serving the Forty-Second. Beneath them sit the City Court of Shreveport and the City Court of Bossier City, the second of which the legislature confined to the city limits themselves, leaving the rest of its ward with the justices of the peace. Around the whole metro run two state lines: Caddo borders Texas on the west and Arkansas on the north, Bossier borders Arkansas, DeSoto borders Texas. Seven counties in two other states touch this metro’s edge, and no Louisiana clerk’s index reaches a single one of them. We work what is lawfully open, for a purpose the law permits, and every line of the report names the office it came from. General information about public records, not legal advice.
A quick pass over routing a three-parish file
Which clerk, which district number, which side of which line.
Play the Shreveport briefing
Here the recorder is a clerk of court
One elected officer, two entirely separate sets of books.
Most of the country separates the two jobs. Somebody records deeds; somebody else keeps the court files; they are different offices with different budgets and often different buildings. Louisiana fused them, and the statute doing the fusing is short enough to quote in full. Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:751 reads:
“The clerks of the several district courts shall be parish registers of conveyances and recorders of mortgages, and notaries public, ex-officio.”
Twenty-one words, and they set the shape of every records question asked in this metro. There is no Caddo Parish Recorder of Deeds to write to, because the recording function belongs to the clerk of the First Judicial District Court by operation of that statute. Ask an office here for the recorder and you will be handed to the clerk, which is not a runaround; it is the correct answer. The Parish of Caddo describes its own clerk of court as keeping mortgages, conveyances, marriage licenses, civil suits, criminal cases and the minutes of the First Judicial District Court, which is the same list read from the other direction.
Fusion at the level of the officer does not mean fusion at the level of the index, and this is where searches go quietly wrong. The words in the statute are plural and specific: a register of conveyances and a recorder of mortgages. Those are two distinct series, historically two distinct sets of bound books, and running a name against one of them leaves the other entirely unsearched. A subject can be absent from the conveyance index because they never bought or sold anything, and present in the mortgage index because they signed as a party to a security instrument on someone else’s purchase. On top of both sits the civil and criminal side of the same office. The Caddo clerk publishes a free public index search covering civil, property, marriage, and adult and juvenile criminal records; the DeSoto Parish Clerk of Court at Mansfield organizes its public-facing divisions the same way, with a mortgage and conveyance section sitting alongside civil, probate and criminal filing and recording. Bossier’s clerk at Benton carries the identical statutory duties for the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District.
The third phrase in the statute is the one researchers skip, and it is worth a moment. The clerk is also a notary public ex officio. Louisiana’s recorded instruments are typically acts passed before a notary, and an act of that kind carries on its face the declared identity of every party to it, together with the address each of them gave on the day it was signed. That is not a database record and it does not decay the way one does. It is a dated statement a person made about themselves, filed at a named counter, and it is frequently the most reliable address on a twenty-year-old file. Our broader treatment of records research across Louisiana covers the statewide offices that sit above these three.
Three parishes, districts one, twenty-six and forty-two
The numbers are not sequential, and one of them was deleted.
Louisiana assigns its trial courts by statute rather than by convention, and Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:477 lists every one of them by name. Three of its paragraphs govern this metro. Paragraph (1) provides that the parish of Caddo shall compose the First District. Paragraph (26) provides that the parishes of Bossier and Webster shall compose the Twenty-Sixth District. Paragraph (42) provides that the parish of DeSoto shall compose the Forty-Second District. Nothing about those three numbers is guessable from a map, and nothing about them can be inferred from population, distance or the order in which the parishes appear alphabetically.
Webster Parish belongs to the district but not to the metro
The Twenty-Sixth is the only one of the three that covers more than one parish, and its second parish is not part of the Shreveport-Bossier City statistical area at all. That has a direct consequence for anyone reading a docket. A Twenty-Sixth Judicial District case number is evidence that a matter was filed in a court serving Bossier and Webster Parishes; it is not evidence that anything happened in Bossier Parish. Judgments, divorces and successions arising forty miles east appear under the same district heading. A file worked on the assumption that the Twenty-Sixth means Bossier will place a subject in the wrong parish, look for their recorded acts in the wrong clerk’s conveyance books, and come back empty with no obvious reason why.
Counting to forty-two in a state with forty-one districts
The statute opens by declaring that there shall be forty-one judicial districts in the state, and then numbers its paragraphs up to forty-two. Both statements are correct. Paragraph (41) carries no parish at all; in its place stands the notation that it was repealed by Acts 2012, No. 474. The numbering was never re-flowed afterward, so DeSoto Parish sits in the Forty-Second Judicial District of a state that has forty-one judicial districts, and there is no Forty-First. Anyone building a reference table from the count rather than from the paragraph numbers will either invent a court that does not exist or quietly renumber DeSoto’s. We have seen both, and the second is worse, because a wrong district number on a request looks entirely plausible to a clerk’s office receiving it.
Two spellings of the same parish, and an index that cares
The statute writes the parish as one word, DeSoto. The Census Bureau’s geographic files write it as two, De Soto Parish. The clerk’s own office at Mansfield uses the single-word form. All three are official and all three are in current use, which matters the moment a search box does exact matching rather than fuzzy matching. A name that returns nothing under one spelling can return a full chain under the other, and the failure is silent: no error message, no partial match, just a clean empty result that reads exactly like an absence of records. Every DeSoto query we run goes out in both forms as a matter of routine, and the report says which form produced which result.
Two city courts, and a limit drawn at the corporate line
The layer beneath the district court, where smaller matters actually live.
District courts are not where most people meet the civil justice system. Smaller money claims, evictions and municipal matters sit a layer down, and this metro has two courts at that layer plus a set of justices of the peace, all of them separately indexed. The City Court of Shreveport is recognized in Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:2007, which routes the fines, forfeitures and costs it imposes in criminal prosecutions, and the fees it collects in all civil matters, into the general fund of the city of Shreveport. That the legislature bothered to say where the civil fees go is the confirmation that there are civil fees to collect: this is a working civil court, not a traffic window.
Bossier City’s court is the interesting one, because the legislature gave it a boundary that does not match anything else in the parish. Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:1952.1 opens by disapplying the general rule and then states that the court
“shall have territorial jurisdiction only throughout the territory which is now or hereafter may be included within the city limits of Bossier City.”
The general rule for Louisiana’s city courts, set out in the section this one overrides, extends a city court’s reach through the city and the ward or wards in which the city sits. Bossier City’s does not. The same statute goes on to say what happens to the remainder: the portion of Ward Two lying outside the corporate limits stays with the justices of the peace, and the parish governing authority divides it among the ones already sitting. In Bossier Parish that governing authority is the Bossier Parish Police Jury, the older Louisiana form of parish government. Caddo, immediately across the river, is governed by a parish commission instead. Two adjoining parishes in one urban area, two different structures of parish government, and the difference is not cosmetic when the question is which body drew the boundary you are standing on.
What this means on a live file is concrete. A Bossier City mailing address is not proof of a Bossier City court address. Post office delivery areas overrun municipal limits everywhere, and a subject whose mail says Bossier City but whose house sits outside the corporate line was never within that court’s reach; their small civil matter went to a justice of the peace or up to the district court instead. Annexation moves the line over time, so the correct court for an address in 2014 is not automatically the correct court for the same address today. This is exactly the kind of routing that decides whether a service attempt lands or gets returned unexecuted with nothing learned.
Every parish here touches another state
Seven counties, two states, one metropolitan area.
This is the fact that separates Shreveport-Bossier from every other Louisiana metro, and it is measurable rather than impressionistic. The Census Bureau publishes a county adjacency file listing, for every county and parish in the country, the counties that share a border with it. Read for the three parishes in this metro, it says this. Caddo Parish adjoins Miller County, Arkansas, and Cass, Harrison, Marion and Panola Counties, Texas. Bossier Parish adjoins Lafayette County and Miller County, Arkansas. DeSoto Parish adjoins Panola County and Shelby County, Texas.
Count the distinct out-of-state neighbors and there are seven: two in Arkansas, Miller and Lafayette, and five in Texas, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Panola and Shelby. Every parish in the metro is on an international-scale boundary in the sense that matters to records work, which is to say a boundary between legislatures. Caddo is the one that touches both states. Panola County is the one that touches two of the three parishes. Bossier is the only parish here with no Texas border, and DeSoto the only one with no Arkansas border, so a rule of thumb built on any single parish will be wrong about the other two.
Where the Louisiana rule stops being true
Revised Statutes 13:751, quoted at the top of this page, is an act of the Louisiana Legislature. It binds Louisiana district clerks. It has no force whatever in Harrison County, Texas, or Miller County, Arkansas, where the custodians were created by other legislatures under other names carrying other duties. We do not describe those offices on this page, because we have not verified their statutory basis to the standard we hold ourselves to for Louisiana, and a plausible-sounding guess about another state’s record structure is exactly how a file gets sent to an office that does not hold what you asked for. What we will say is the operational consequence, which is unambiguous: a search of the Caddo Parish conveyance index is a search of Caddo Parish. A subject who bought a house a short drive west of the parish line generated a recorded instrument that will never appear in a Caddo book, and no amount of thoroughness on the Louisiana side will surface it.
So a blank result here is a statement about an index, not about a person. When we report that a name does not appear in a parish’s records, the report says which index was run, on what date, and what territory that index covers, so the absence can be read correctly rather than mistaken for proof. Where the trail leans west we work it as a Texas matter under Texas custodians; where it leans north we work it as an Arkansas matter. What we will not do is imply that a Louisiana search covered ground it never reached.
One more geographic detail belongs here because it is the single most common source of confusion in this metro. Shreveport and Bossier City face each other across the Red River and function commercially as one city, but Shreveport is in Caddo Parish and Bossier City is in Bossier Parish. Crossing between them changes the clerk of court, the numbered judicial district, the city court, and the form of parish government. It is the shortest distance in the United States over which that many custodial changes occur at once, and a search that treats the two as one place will do half the work and report all of it.
Mineral servitudes expire, and their owners go missing
A Louisiana rule with no equivalent in the states next door.
Northwest Louisiana land records carry a great many severed mineral interests, and Louisiana treats them under a rule that reaches back into Roman law and produces consequences a researcher trained anywhere else will not anticipate. Louisiana Revised Statutes 31:16, the opening of the Mineral Code’s treatment of created rights, states that mineral rights “are real rights and are subject either to the prescription of nonuse for ten years or to special rules of law governing the term of their existence.” A mineral servitude is not a permanent estate. It is a right that dies of neglect.
Ten years, running from the day it was created
The mechanics are set out across three short sections. Section 31:27 lists the ways a mineral servitude is extinguished, and the first of them is “prescription resulting from nonuse for ten years”; confusion, renunciation, expiry of a stated term and extinction of the granting right make up the rest. Section 31:28 fixes the starting line in a single sentence: “Prescription of nonuse of a mineral servitude commences from the date on which it is created.” Section 31:29 supplies the interruption, which is good faith operations for the discovery and production of minerals, defined in the statute as operations commenced with a reasonable expectation of producing in paying quantities at a particular point or depth, continued to that point or depth, and conducted as a single operation even where drilling is not continuous.
Put plainly: a mineral servitude created in a recorded act runs a ten-year clock from the date of the act, and unless drilling or production interrupts it, the right reverts to the landowner without any document being filed to announce it. Nobody writes to the servitude owner. Nothing appears in a database. The interest is simply gone, and the only way to know is to read the recorded chain and the operations against the calendar.
For locating people, this produces a distinctive pattern in Caddo and especially in rural DeSoto Parish. A family’s entire recorded footprint in a parish can consist of a single mineral act signed decades ago, naming every heir alive at the time and the address each of them gave that day. Those addresses are old, but they are declarations, not inferences, and they are frequently the only fixed point available for a branch of a family that left Louisiana in the nineteen-seventies and was never entered into a commercial data file under a Louisiana address at all. The act is filed with the clerk of court under Revised Statutes 13:751, in the same conveyance series described earlier, which is why this work begins at a counter rather than at a search box. Where the question is the current owner rather than the historical one, our guide to tracing a mineral rights owner sets out the document-by-document method.
There is a second thread worth pulling on these files. When money owed to a person cannot be delivered because nobody knows where they are, it does not evaporate; it eventually reaches the state. The Louisiana Department of the Treasury runs the state’s unclaimed property program, and a name that has gone silent in a parish conveyance index sometimes reappears there attached to a last known address that no private data source carries. Entity records are worth a pass too, since interests are often held through companies rather than individuals; the Secretary of State’s commercial filings search covers those statewide and will name officers and a registered address.
Which custodian holds which record
Three parishes side by side, and the edge beyond them.
| What you need | Caddo Parish | Bossier Parish | DeSoto Parish | Past the state line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deeds and recorded acts | Clerk of Court, register of conveyances R.S. 13:751 | Clerk of Court, Benton | Clerk of Court, Mansfield | Other legislatures, other custodians. |
| Mortgages and security instruments | Same clerk, separate index series | Same clerk, separate index series | Same clerk, separate index series | Not in any Louisiana book. |
| Trial court case files | First Judicial District | Twenty-Sixth, shared with Webster | Forty-Second, no Forty-First exists | Courts constituted under other law. |
| Smaller civil and eviction matters | City Court of Shreveport | City Court of Bossier City, city limits only; justices of the peace beyond | Justices of the peace and the district court | Separate limited courts entirely. |
| Parish governing body | Parish commission | Police jury | Parish governing authority | County government, differently named. |
| Mineral servitudes | Created by recorded act at each clerk; ten-year prescription of nonuse under the Louisiana Mineral Code. | No equivalent prescription rule. | ||
| Business entities and unclaimed funds | Statewide, through the Secretary of State and the state treasury rather than any parish office. | |||
Follow any row from left to right and it becomes visible why a single-database sweep underperforms here. One subject, but the paper about them is distributed across three elected clerks who answer to three differently numbered courts, two municipal benches with different territorial reach, a set of justices of the peace whose districts were drawn by a police jury, and two statewide offices that no parish controls. Assembling that into one sourced answer, with the gaps marked, is what our skip tracing work consists of. Where a judgment is the reason for the search, the enforcement mechanics sit in our material on collecting a Louisiana judgment, which is a legal question for your counsel rather than a records question for us.
Where a Shreveport-Bossier file quietly stalls
Six recurring ways a three-parish search returns a confident nothing.
One Bank of the River
Caddo searched thoroughly, Bossier never opened, though the two are a bridge apart.
Twenty-Sixth Read as Bossier
A docket entry from Webster Parish placed in a metro it never belonged to.
A Forty-First District
A routing table built by counting courts instead of reading paragraph numbers.
The Space in DeSoto
An exact-match index returning empty on a spelling that is equally official.
Mailing Address as Jurisdiction
A Bossier City address that sits outside the corporate limits and outside that court.
An Expired Servitude
A recorded mineral interest treated as live when ten years of nonuse ended it.
How a three-parish locate is worked
Parish first, court number second, both index series third, limits stated last.
Settle the Parish
A mailing address is not a jurisdiction. Caddo, Bossier or DeSoto gets fixed before anything is searched.
Match the Court Number
First, Twenty-Sixth or Forty-Second, plus the city court or justice of the peace the amount and address put it in front of.
Run Both Index Series
Conveyances and mortgages are separate books at the same clerk, and DeSoto goes out in both spellings.
Mark Where Louisiana Ends
Anything past the Texas or Arkansas line is named as out of reach rather than quietly implied to be covered.
What this desk does, and what it turns away
Set out before you engage us rather than discovered afterward.
This is a public-records research practice. Its people read clerks’ indexes, pull recorded instruments, and work from lawfully licensed data. Nobody here holds a private investigator’s license in Louisiana or anywhere else, nobody here is a licensed private investigator, and nobody will let a client believe otherwise; several firms competing for this same query lead with a license badge, and that badge describes a differently regulated trade doing a different job. What replaces it here is knowing which of the three clerks holds the document and being able to name the statute that put it there. Every file opens on a purpose the law permits, established and written down before anybody touches an index, and a request that cannot state one does not become a file. . We do not attempt to reach the contents of anybody’s private financial accounts, and an instruction to do so ends the engagement rather than starting it.
No part of this is a consumer report
This firm is not a consumer reporting agency, and nothing that leaves it is a consumer report. Do not weigh it, in any degree, in a determination the Fair Credit Reporting Act reaches. That statute’s reach covers a rental application or a tenant screen, a hiring or promotion or retention call, whether credit is extended and on what terms, an insurance underwriting judgment, a professional licensing decision, and any comparable eligibility finding made about a person. Where one of those is the real purpose, the work belongs with a screening company regulated for exactly that and running the disclosed, compliant process the statute requires – and we will name that route and decline the engagement, rather than book it and hope the file is not misused six months later. Finding a person who has gone is one question. Deciding something about that person is a different one, and only the first belongs on this desk.
Requests that get more scrutiny, not less
This page has been open about how much of a person’s life is written into a parish index here, so it has to be equally open about the other side of that. Somebody who is hard to find is often deliberately hard to find, and the parish structure described above — three clerks, two state lines, a short drive to a jurisdiction none of these books reach — is exactly the structure a person uses when they need distance from someone. People live where they live, and moving is not evidence of anything. Where an enquiry looks like an effort to erase a separation the other party built deliberately, we decline it, and the enquiry is not discreetly forwarded to anyone else. The warning signs do not vary much, and each of them is read as disqualifying rather than as an objection to be argued past. A reason for the search that comes apart the first time it is questioned. Nothing resembling a court process standing behind the request. Urgency fixed on the street address itself instead of on whatever the matter is supposedly about. A protective order, or a background that includes domestic violence. A caller who will not state plainly who is instructing us. Anything that touches where a survivor is now is examined harder at intake, never more loosely, and a confidentiality arrangement someone has entered into for their own safety is a wall we work around rather than a lock we pick.
Where our work stops
On a judgment file, this desk can place the person and set out the recorded real property and mineral interests standing in their name in Caddo, Bossier or DeSoto Parish. Seizure, garnishment and every other enforcement instrument are your attorney’s to draft, as is the question of whether a Louisiana judgment reaches anything sitting over the line in Texas or Arkansas. On a service file, what you get back is an address confirmed to a standard an authorized process server can act on. Serving process is not something this firm does, and the sufficiency of whatever service follows gets decided by the court on your attorney’s record, never on ours. Where the matter is a mineral interest, we can trace the recorded chain and the people named in it; whether a servitude survived its ten years is a legal conclusion for a title attorney to draw from those documents, not one we announce. And this page is general information about how records are kept in these three parishes; none of it amounts to legal advice.
Who opens files in this corner of Louisiana
Clients who already hold the name and need the routing.
Ark-La-Tex Litigators
Parties and witnesses scattered over two state lines
Mineral Title Researchers
Owners behind a servitude created decades ago
Enforcement Counsel
Debtors and recorded property across three clerks
Heirship Attorneys
Successors named in a recorded act and never seen since
Civil Process Firms
Addresses tied to the right court before an attempt
Separated Kin
Relatives lost when a family left the parish generations back
Every one of these clients arrives holding a name. What they are missing is the routing: which of three clerks should have the document, which numbered court would have taken the filing, whether a city court ever had reach over the address at all, and whether the trail has already left Louisiana. Send the name, the parish or town anyone last associated with the subject, any spelling variants your file already carries, and the reason the search is being made. Where a request is workable, a first written read normally reaches you within 24 hours. Files that have to travel through all three clerks, or through both forms of DeSoto, or into a paper series nobody has digitized, take longer, and they take longer for the plain reason that those indexes are being read instead of assumed.
Named clerk, named parish, named date
Every result arrives labeled with the clerk’s office it came out of and the day it was pulled, and where an index stops short you are given that limit beside the result rather than a blank you have to interpret. If the trail runs over into Texas or Arkansas, the report states it outright instead of leaving you to deduce it from a thin answer. Placing a person and confirming the placement is what this firm answers for; every legal step downstream is yours and your attorney’s. .
Questions we get about Caddo, Bossier and DeSoto
Which office holds Shreveport deeds and mortgages?
The Caddo Parish Clerk of Court. Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:751 provides that the clerks of the several district courts shall be parish registers of conveyances and recorders of mortgages, and notaries public, ex officio, so there is no separate recorder of deeds to write to. The Parish of Caddo describes its clerk’s office as keeping mortgages, conveyances, marriage licenses, civil suits, criminal cases and the minutes of the First Judicial District Court. Conveyances and mortgages are separate index series inside that office, and a search of one is not a search of the other.
Is Bossier City in the same parish as Shreveport?
No. Shreveport is in Caddo Parish and Bossier City is in Bossier Parish, facing each other across the Red River in one continuous urban area. Crossing between them changes the clerk of court who holds the records, the numbered judicial district that takes the filings, the city court with jurisdiction over smaller matters, and even the form of parish government, since Bossier Parish is run by a police jury and Caddo by a parish commission. A search of one side is genuinely not a search of the other, which is the single most common gap we are asked to close on files that arrived here already worked.
Which court would a Shreveport court file be in?
It depends on the size and nature of the matter. Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:477 provides that the parish of Caddo composes the First District, so district court filings for Shreveport go to the First Judicial District Court, whose minutes the Caddo clerk keeps. Smaller civil matters, evictions and municipal prosecutions sit instead with the City Court of Shreveport, which Revised Statutes 13:2007 recognizes and whose civil fees run to the city’s general fund. Those are separately indexed, so a district court search alone will miss an entire layer of filings.
Why is a Bossier Parish case in the Twenty-Sixth District with Webster Parish?
Because the statute says so. Revised Statutes 13:477, paragraph 26, provides that the parishes of Bossier and Webster shall compose the Twenty-Sixth District. Webster Parish is not part of the Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area, so a Twenty-Sixth Judicial District case number is evidence that a filing was made in a court serving two parishes, not evidence that the matter arose in Bossier. Reading the district as a synonym for the parish sends a records request to the wrong clerk and puts the subject in the wrong conveyance books.
Why does DeSoto Parish sit in the Forty-Second District?
Revised Statutes 13:477 declares that there shall be forty-one judicial districts and then numbers its paragraphs to forty-two. Both are accurate: paragraph 41 was repealed by Acts 2012, No. 474, and the remaining paragraphs were never renumbered. DeSoto Parish therefore composes the Forty-Second District in a state with forty-one districts, and there is no Forty-First. One more DeSoto trap is worth knowing: the statute and the clerk’s own office write the name as one word while the Census Bureau writes it as two, and an exact-match index will silently return nothing on the spelling you did not try.
Does the Shreveport metro reach into Texas or Arkansas?
The metropolitan area itself is three Louisiana parishes, but every one of them borders another state. The Census Bureau’s county adjacency file shows Caddo Parish adjoining Miller County, Arkansas, and Cass, Harrison, Marion and Panola Counties, Texas; Bossier Parish adjoining Lafayette and Miller Counties, Arkansas; and DeSoto Parish adjoining Panola and Shelby Counties, Texas. That is seven distinct out-of-state counties, five in Texas and two in Arkansas. Louisiana’s ex officio recorder statute binds Louisiana clerks only, so a subject who moved a short distance west or north left the parish indexes entirely and has to be worked under that state’s own custodians.
Can you research property and mineral interests in these parishes?
Yes, through the recorded chain rather than through a database. Deeds, mortgages and mineral acts are filed with each parish clerk of court, and a mineral act names the parties and carries the address each of them declared on the day it was signed. Louisiana adds a rule the neighboring states do not have: Revised Statutes 31:27 extinguishes a mineral servitude by prescription resulting from nonuse for ten years, running under 31:28 from the date the servitude was created and interrupted under 31:29 by good faith operations. Nothing is filed when a servitude prescribes, so whether an old interest still exists is read from the chain and the operations, and the legal conclusion belongs to a title attorney.
Does this work require a private investigator’s license in Louisiana?
. This is public-records research.. Using parish records and lawfully licensed data to locate a person for a legitimate reason is lawful, and a purpose the law permits is established and recorded before the first index is opened. We do not go near private financial account contents.. What comes back is neither a background check nor a consumer report. This firm is not a consumer reporting agency, and nothing it produces may be used to decide a rental application, a hiring question, credit terms, insurance, or any other eligibility determination the Fair Credit Reporting Act reaches.
One name, three clerks, two state lines
Give us the name, whatever address the file last had any confidence in, and why the research is needed. The parish gets settled first, the numbered court second, both of the clerk’s index series third, and what comes back carries the office behind every finding together with a plain statement of where Louisiana’s records stop being able to help. Contact us to open a Shreveport-Bossier file.
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