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You have been made executor. The funeral is over, and the real work starts — and nobody hands you a timetable. Somewhere there is a date after which a creditor can no longer come at the estate, and another by which the court wants an inventory, and a federal one nine months out that nobody mentions until it is close. They are all in your state's code. Finding them is a research project you did not sign up for, in the worst month of your life.
This is one file. You pick the state where the estate is being settled, type in the dates you have, and it counts the deadlines forward — and prints the section of your state's code beside every one of them, with a link, so you can read the law rather than take this file's word for it.
Then it does the rest of the arithmetic. What the estate owns and what it owes, with probate and non-probate property kept apart, because your state's small-estate threshold counts only one of those columns and the federal threshold counts both. Whether the estate comes under that threshold. A register of who you have notified, when, and what proof you kept. A log of what you paid out of your own pocket before the estate could pay you back — the thing every executor wishes they had started on day one.
It is honest about what it does not know, which is the part most tools skip. Louisiana has no bar date for creditors' claims at all; New Jersey does not require an inventory to be filed; New Hampshire has no small-estate affidavit with a dollar figure. In those states this file says so, with the section that proves it, instead of printing a number. In Oklahoma and Wisconsin the court sets the date rather than the statute, so it shows you the window and tells you to read the date off your own order. Alabama, Colorado, Maine and Michigan set their threshold by an inflation formula rather than a figure — you get the formula and a dash, never an invented amount.
Nothing you type leaves your device, because there is nowhere for it to go: the file contains no network code at all. You do not have to trust that. Open it in a text editor and search for the word "fetch" — you will find it twice, in the two notes that tell you to look for it, and nowhere else.
In the same download: a 13-page binder to print, with the same registers on paper for the court, the bank and the family.
Not legal, not tax, not financial. It is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney, and whoever made it is not a law firm. Here is exactly what it does:
- counts deadlines forward from the dates you type in, using the statute of the state you pick
- prints the code section and a link to it next to every deadline it shows
- adds up what the estate owns and what it owes, and shows the difference
- keeps probate and non-probate property in separate columns
- compares the estate against your state's small-estate threshold and against the federal filing threshold
- keeps a register of who has been notified, when, how, and whether it was confirmed
- keeps a log of what you paid out of your own pocket and what has been paid back
- prints a summary with your own figures in it, ready to show the court, a lawyer or the family
It does not tell you what to do in your case. It does not file anything, does not prepare court documents, and does not know the rules of your county. It cannot tell you whether probate is required, whether a debt is valid, or what any deadline means for you. The probate court, an attorney licensed in your state, and a CPA are who can answer those questions.
What you get
- One purchase, not a subscription. The software that counts probate deadlines for you costs $96 to $100 a year and wants the deceased person's details uploaded to its servers — Executor.org lists $96/year, Everplans $99.99/year. This is a file on your disk, bought once, that you still own in five years.
- All 50 states and the District of Columbia, each with the code section and the words of the statute printed on screen
- Counts from the dates that actually matter: date of death, the day letters were issued, the day the notice to creditors was first published, the day your notice reached a particular creditor
- Gets the hard rules right: Maryland and Montana bar claims at the earlier of two dates, not the later; month-end clamps so 31 May plus nine months is 28 February, not 3 March
- Says what it does not know. Six jurisdictions genuinely have no such rule, two leave the date to the court, four set a threshold by formula — all named, with their sections, instead of a made-up figure
- Lists every check that could not run, and why. A missing check is not a passed check
- An empty field is never read as a zero, and neither is an empty list
- Eight languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian. The statutes stay in English, because translating a law would make it say something the law does not
- No install, no account, no connection. Works on a laptop at the kitchen table and on a phone in the courthouse corridor
- A 13-page printable binder in the same download, for the parts that happen on paper
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Questions
Does this replace a probate attorney?
No, and it is built not to. It is arithmetic with its sources printed beside it. It cannot tell you whether probate is required for this estate, whether a claim is valid, whether a deadline was tolled, or what your county wants — and those are exactly the questions that decide a case. What it does is make sure you arrive at that conversation knowing the dates, the totals and the sections they come from, instead of paying to have them looked up.
How do I know the dates are right?
Two ways. First, every date carries the code section it was counted from and the words of the statute, with a link — so you can check it against the law rather than against our word. Second, the arithmetic is written twice, independently, and the two versions are run against hundreds of scenarios before the file is packaged; if they disagree anywhere, the file is not built. The count of scenarios and the number of differences found are printed in the PDF that comes with it.
What if my state is one of the odd ones?
Then it says so. Louisiana has no non-claim statute; Virginia has no fixed bar date; New Jersey does not require an inventory to be filed; Pennsylvania ties the inventory to the tax return rather than to your appointment; New Hampshire has no small-estate affidavit with a dollar figure. In each case you get the explanation and the section, not a number. Oklahoma and Wisconsin leave the date to the court, so you get the statutory window and are told to read the date off your own order.
Is there a subscription?
No. You buy the file once and it is yours. It does not phone home, it does not expire, and there is nothing to cancel. The services that do this work by subscription charge between $96 and $100 a year and require an account with the deceased person's details on it.
Where do my figures go?
Into the storage of the browser you opened the file in, on that device. Not to us, not to anyone — the file has no network code in it. Clearing your browser's site data erases them, so there is a backup button on the Data tab. The links to the statutes are plain text until you click one; clicking is your action, not the file's.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Save the file to the device and open it with the browser. A computer is easier for the tables, but the deadlines and the summary read well on a phone, which is where you will want them — in a corridor, waiting.
Does it calculate the tax?
No. It tells you whether your state has an estate tax or an inheritance tax of its own, with the source, and it compares the estate against the federal exclusion so you know which side of it you are on. It does not compute anyone's tax and it does not tell you whether a return is needed — being under the exclusion does not by itself settle that, and it is a question for a CPA.
What does the printable binder add?
The parts of this job that happen on paper. Thirteen pages you print and fill in: the dates everything counts from, property in two columns, claims as they arrive, who you told and what proof you kept, what you paid yourself and what came back, and a page of questions worth asking the probate clerk, an attorney and a CPA. Competing binders sell for $24.99 to $34 and stop there; this one comes with the file that does the counting.
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Executor's Estate Settlement Kit (US)
One offline file that counts your probate deadlines from your own dates, using your state's own statute — and prints the code section next to every date it gives you. Plus a 13-page binder to print.
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