When someone dies, the person handling their affairs is usually a family member with no training, doing it for the first time, while grieving. The two normal options are bad: spend weeks piecing together answers from forums, or hand the whole thing to a firm for thousands of dollars.
Settle Your Home is a third option. We answer the questions plainly, tell you whether you even need probate based on your state's actual rules, and give you one clear step at a time. The legal facts come from a transparent, dated rules table, not from a chatbot's guess. Where a real professional is genuinely needed, we say so.
We're building the calm, trustworthy companion we wish every family had at the worst possible time.
Our guides and questionnaire cover all 50 states. Where a state uses a dollar small-estate cut-off, we use that state's verified figure (with its source); the couple of states that don't use a dollar cut-off are handled honestly — we tell you to confirm the procedure with the local court rather than invent a number. Deeper document features (like the Deed Reader) are rolling out state by state. Everything is educational and always points you to your county court or a local attorney to confirm specifics.
Educational information, not legal or tax advice.