Verify Estate Documents
in Seconds
When a patient arrives incapacitated, when a client claims POA authority, when an estate enters probate — find out in seconds whether documents are registered, where they're kept, and their recorded status.
Who This Is For
Built for the Institutions That Need It Most
Banks & Financial Institutions
Check whether a Power of Attorney or trust document has been registered, where it's recorded to be kept, and its recorded status — a fast first step before your own review.
- POA registration lookup for account access
- Trust registration lookup
- Estate account setup
- Registration status check (active / updated / revoked)
Hospitals & Healthcare
Find where healthcare directives and HIPAA authorizations are recorded to be kept for incapacitated patients — and who to contact to retrieve them.
- Advance directive lookup
- Healthcare POA verification
- HIPAA authorization check
- Emergency contact identification
Attorneys & Law Firms
Look up registered wills and trusts during probate. See each registration's recorded status — including whether it has been marked updated or revoked.
- Will existence verification
- Trust registry search
- Document currency confirmation
- Cross-state document lookup
What the registry tells you — and what it doesn't
UEDRA confirms three things: that a registration exists, its recorded location, and its recorded status (active, updated, or revoked). It does not verify a document's validity, anyone's legal authority, or that the record is complete. Always obtain and review the document itself before acting on it.
A location pointer. The registrant told us where the document lives and who to contact — identity not verified.
A certified vault provider (e.g., VerAuth) holds the document under contract, with identity verification and controlled delivery to authorized parties.
How It Works
Four Simple Steps
Search
Enter a registry number or search by name, date of birth, and state.
View Results
See document type, status, storage location, and contact information.
Contact
Reach the right person to retrieve the actual document.
Verify
Confirm the document is current and matches what was presented to you.
Verification Tiers
Understanding What You See
Every document in the registry has a verification tier that tells you how much you can trust the record.
Self-Registered
The registrant stated this document exists and provided storage and contact information. UEDRA has not verified the document itself.
- Document existence declared
- Storage location provided
- Contact person listed
Certified Vault
This document is stored in a UEDRA-certified registry. The document's existence, integrity, and chain of custody are verified.
- Document verified and encrypted
- Chain of custody tracked
- Instant retrieval by authorized parties
Integration
Institution Search API
If your team checks the registry often, you can query it directly from your own systems instead of the web form. One key-authenticated endpoint returns the same narrow set of facts the website shows — nothing more.
POST /api/registry/institution/search
x-api-key: <your institution key>
Content-Type: application/json
{
"firstName": "Jane",
"lastName": "Doe",
"dob": "1948-03-11",
"state": "NV",
"documentType": "financial_poa"
}A name on its own is never enough — you must supply a date of birth or a state alongside it. That is deliberate: it keeps the registry from being harvested.
200 OK
{
"results": [
{
"registryNumber": "UEDRA-NV-2026-000142",
"documentType": "financial_poa",
"status": "active",
"verificationTier": "self_registered",
"identityVerified": false,
"storedWithUedra": false,
"locationSummary": "Held by a law office"
}
]
}No match is a normal, empty result — not an error. We never confirm or deny anything beyond what is shown here.
What a lookup tells you
- That a registration exists for that person and document type
- Its recorded status — active, updated, or revoked
- Its verification tier, and whether the registrant's identity was ever checked. Certified-vault entries are pushed to us by a contracted provider that performs its own identity verification on the client; self-registered entries have had no identity check at all
- A general descriptionof where it is kept — a category such as “held by a law office,” never the registrant's own words about the hiding place
What it does not tell you
- That the document is valid — we have not reviewed it, and most registrations are never seen by us at all
- That it is current — a document can be replaced or torn up without anyone telling the registry
- That anyone holds legal authorityunder it. A registry entry confers nothing and proves nothing about an agent's powers
- That the record is complete — an empty result means we have no registration, not that no document exists
Obtain and review the document itself before you act on it. A lookup is a starting point for your own process, never a substitute for it.
Issued, not signed up for
There is no self-serve key. We issue one key per institution after a short conversation, and can deactivate it at any time.
Rate limited
Each key has per-minute and per-day limits. They are sized for real casework, not bulk extraction of the registry.
Every lookup is logged
We record who searched, for whom, and what came back. Registrants are told this, and the log is available to regulators on request.
Requesting access
Email us or use the contact form with your institution's name, the team that will use it, and roughly how often you expect to search. We will confirm the details, issue a key, and send it over a channel you already trust. Keys are shown once and stored only as a hash — if one is lost or exposed, tell us and we will deactivate it and issue a replacement.
Request API accessComing Soon
Power User Features
We're building institutional tools for high-volume users.
Alert Subscriptions
Get notified when a registration's status changes — POA revocations, will updates, and more.
Batch Lookup
Search many people in one call, for portfolio reviews and periodic re-checks.
Self-Serve Audit Export
We already log every lookup you make. Downloading that log yourself isn't built yet — ask us and we'll pull it for you in the meantime.
Ready to Verify?
Search the UEDRA National Registry for free. No account required.
For comprehensive, verified access: Certified Registrars like VerAuth offer encrypted vault storage and instant document delivery to authorized institutions.