Estate administration, handled.
You stay the executor and stay in control. You just stop being the one making the phone calls, chasing the paperwork and filing the forms.
- One upfront price, not a percentage of the estate
- Honorly never becomes the executor
- Stop at any point
A service we recommend and advise on, delivered by Honorly. Your agreement is with Honorly, and we are paid when we refer you. We are not a law firm and neither are they. They work alongside attorneys and CPAs where an estate needs them.
Honorly will call you, usually within one business day. If it would help while you wait, our after-a-death checklist covers what you can be getting on with.
Set after a free call, based on the work the estate actually needs, not a percentage of what your family inherits. The industry norm is 3 to 8% of the estate.
Honorly never becomes the executor. They work under your written authorization, and you can stop at any point.
Most estates take that long end to end. Deadlines, court names and thresholds differ by state. Tell them where the estate is on the call and they will tell you what applies.
How it goes, and what stays yours
Register the death, secure the house, find the will, and tell the people who need to hear it from you.
Orders the death certificates, makes the urgent notifications, and starts building a picture of what the estate holds.
Sign what the court needs from you as executor. Nothing here is delegated. The authority stays yours.
Works with an attorney in their network on whether probate is needed, then prepares and files the paperwork.
Point them at what you already know about: a bank, an old pension, the safe deposit box.
Tracks down accounts, property, policies and retirement funds, values them, and gets the estate bank account open.
Almost nothing. This is the phase that eats months of evenings if you do it yourself.
Notifies creditors and agencies, meets the deadlines, blocks fraud attempts, and keeps essential bills paid.
Approve what gets paid. You decide, they do the arithmetic and the filing.
Pays valid claims in the legal order, contests the ones that are not valid, and brings in a CPA where the return needs one.
Tell them who gets what, per the will, and sign the final paperwork.
Transfers the assets, moves titles, prepares the final accounting, and closes the estate with the court.