Arizona Asset Search

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An asset appearing in a public record is not automatically available to pay a judgment. This guide separates the public-record search from private financial information and the Arizona collection process.

Follow the documents, not just the name

Use the parcel record to locate the recorded deed, then search the actual owner in Corporation Commission records. Review addresses and filing dates, not just a matching surname. A recorded deed of trust may identify a lender, but its original amount is not the current payoff balance.

Arizona Courts publishes separate garnishment materials for earnings and for money or property other than earnings. A bank balance belongs in the non-earnings analysis; the wage packet is not a substitute.

Confirm the judgment, the debtor's identity and the financial institution to be served. Complete the applicable application and court papers, arrange authorized service, and follow the bank's answer and the debtor's exemption process. Use the court's instructions for the next order required to obtain payment rather than treating the initial writ as a payout authorization.

Maricopa County's collection guidance notes that a bank search fee may apply when an account number is unknown. That is a useful distinction: not having a number does not necessarily make bank garnishment impossible, but the bank must be able to identify the correct customer under the applicable process.

Arizona's official materials flag Proposition 209 and inflation-related changes to protected amounts. Use the current exemption information for the date and type of collection. An old internet chart can lead to the wrong calculation even when the underlying judgment is valid.

The applicable official starting points are Arizona Courts: garnishment forms and instructions, Maricopa County Superior Court: collecting a judgment. Use the current issuer's forms and instructions for the particular case.

A certified judgment recorded in the appropriate county can be relevant to real-estate collection, while a financial examination can help identify property. Neither the assessor's estimate nor a corporation listing tells you the owner's reachable equity. Review recorded liens and the governing protections before paying for an execution attempt.

The Census Bureau's 2020-2024 estimates report an owner-occupied housing rate of 67.4% and a median value of owner-occupied housing of $394,500 in Arizona. The rate refers to occupied housing units, not a percentage of people. The value is not an estimate of equity available to creditors. Census QuickFacts: Arizona.

Property parcels, deeds, company connections and secured business equipment are practical public-record starting points. Use vehicle, vessel or financial-account research when there is a specific lead, not a promise of one comprehensive public report.

Do not mix a wage form, an outdated protected-amount schedule and a bank target. The form category, debtor name, service recipient and current law must agree before the papers are sent out.

• Santa Cruz County: collecting a judgment

A.R.S. 25-311(A) vests original jurisdiction over dissolution, legal separation and annulment in the Superior Court, a dissolution or legal separation case is filed, under A.R.S. 12-401(13), in the county where the petitioner resides at filing, and the Clerk of the Superior Court of that county keeps the file. The access rule is Rule 123 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Arizona, public access to the judicial records of the state, and the Maricopa County Clerk states it plainly: all case records are open to the public except as may be closed by law or as set forth in Rule 123, and records deemed closed, sealed or confidential are not available for review or copying. Family court files are not closed as a class.

The sworn money form

Arizona's filed form is the Affidavit of Financial Information, a sworn statement filed whenever child support, spousal maintenance or attorney fees are at issue; Maricopa County's version is form DROSC13f. It lists employment history and the employer, gross monthly income from every source, self-employment income, child related expenses, monthly living expenses and outstanding debts, with copies to the other party and the judge. Rule 43.1(g) of the Arizona Rules of Family Law Procedure lets the clerk treat any Affidavit of Financial Information as confidential, so a filed affidavit may be withheld from public view. The fuller inventory is the Rule 49 Disclosure Statement, Maricopa form DRDS10f, listing property, debts, income and witnesses, and the instructions are explicit that the party does not file it with the Clerk of Superior Court but mails or hand delivers it to the other party. What carries the assets into the public file is the petition, the decree of dissolution with its division of property and debt, any consent decree or property settlement agreement attached to it, child support and spousal maintenance orders and qualified domestic relations orders.

Finding and reading the file

Public Access to Court Information at apps.azcourts.gov/publicaccess is the Judicial Branch's index of case information from 177 of Arizona's 184 courts, superior, justice and municipal, with family cases included and sealed cases, orders of protection, mental health and probate cases left out; it shows case summary and docket information, not documents. Maricopa County runs its own family court docket search, the eAccess service that sells document images does not carry family or domestic relations cases, and the Clerk lists inspection of records at no charge with plain and certified copies for a fee. Sealing is by motion under the Arizona Rules of Family Law Procedure and Rule 123, and a sealed record is withheld from inspection.

Bankruptcy files for Arizona residents

Arizona is one bankruptcy district, the District of Arizona at azb.uscourts.gov. Its schedules name each deposit account by institution and the employer by name and are public under 11 U.S.C. 107, which supplies the account detail that the unfiled Disclosure Statement keeps out of the divorce file.

After the file: supplemental proceedings

Under A.R.S. 12-1631, once a judgment has been entered and docketed, the judgment creditor may at any time have an order from the court requiring the judgment debtor to appear and answer concerning his property before the court or a referee at a time and place specified in the order, or a subpoena compelling the debtor to appear for a deposition on oral examination concerning his property, and the debtor cannot be required to attend outside the county of residence. The Arizona judgments and liens page covers the procedure.

• A.R.S. 25-311The Superior Court's jurisdiction over dissolution
• Obtaining records, Clerk of the Superior Court, Maricopa CountyThe open records statement, Rule 123 and eAccess
• Rule 49 Disclosure Statement instructions, Maricopa CountyThe instruction not to file the asset inventory
• Public Access to Court Information, Arizona Judicial BranchThe statewide case index
• A.R.S. 12-1631The order to appear and answer concerning property

The national guide covers what stays private, the collection tools for every asset class and what a search and levy can cost: Asset Search, what public records reveal and what stays private.