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The Estate Executor Kit
Everything you need for the first months of estate administration, in one kit.
Written for a first-time executor of a U.S. estate. Not a spreadsheet to track assets: a sequence to follow, so you know what to do first and what to leave until the court says it’s safe.
You’ve just been named executor. There are documents to find, deadlines you cannot see yet, and a process nobody explained to you. Being named in a will gives you no authority yet, only the court’s appointment does. Before that, a wrong move, paying a bill, closing an account, can make you personally liable later.
This kit is a coordinated set of three parts: a Core Sequence for the five stages a U.S. estate generally moves through, a Local Verification Checklist for the questions only your own courthouse and bank can answer, and Letter Templates for your bank and your co-heirs. Fill it in, print it, use it.
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Instant download (PDF + Word) · 41 pages · A4 + US Letter
This is for you if…
- You’ve just been named executor or personal representative of a U.S. estate, for the first time.
- You want the order to follow first, not a spreadsheet to build from scratch.
- You want every local unknown marked as a question to confirm, with its source and date, not guessed at.
Not for: a professional fiduciary or attorney, an heir with no formal role in the estate, or an executor outside the United States. Also not for a trustee administering a trust: trusts run on a different mechanism, and Title 11 trustees are expressly excluded from the federal rule this kit is built around.
What’s inside (instant download, fill in on screen or print)
Before you start, the kit says what it covers and what it deliberately does not: it is not legal advice, not a substitute for a probate attorney, and not a promise about how long your estate will take. Every deadline it names sends you to the Local Verification Checklist instead of guessing.
- Core Sequence
- five stages in the order U.S. probate generally follows (appointment, Letters, notice to creditors, the creditor claim period, payment and distribution). Each stage names what happens, what you need in hand first, and what you don’t do yet. A “What NOT to do” page names the mistakes that create personal liability, plus the one federal rule that reaches every state, 31 U.S.C. § 3713, with the condition that limits it
- Local Verification Checklist
- 14 questions covering whatever differs from one jurisdiction to the next: what deadline applies, which form is required, or where a debt ranks. Each question has a field for your answer, its source, and the date you confirmed it. The one place any ranking of debts belongs
- Letter Templates
- a letter to a financial institution and a letter to co-heirs and family, ready to adapt. Also delivered as editable Word files
Why it works
The Core Sequence tells you what stage you’re in and what to leave until the next one. A number it can’t give you, a deadline, a form, a bank’s own rule, points to a numbered question in the Verification Checklist instead of a guess. Once you’ve confirmed you’re past the creditor claim period and cleared to pay, the Letter Templates carry that to your bank and your co-heirs.
Format & delivery
Instant PDF download, 41 pages, fillable on screen. Print-ready in A4 and US Letter. The two Letter Templates also come as editable Word files. No app, no login, no expiry.
What it is not
Most of what comes up for “estate executor checklist” on Etsy is a spreadsheet or asset tracker, including the strongest listing on the search page, priced at $17.94 (Etsy market scan checked 2026-09-17). This kit doesn’t ask you to log every account. It gives you the order to work through before you touch one, and it doesn’t state a single ranking of debts in its own voice: every ranking question moves to the Verification Checklist, confirmed locally, instead. If a spreadsheet to log assets is what you need, that market already has one.
FAQ
It’s general information, not legal advice, and using it doesn’t form an attorney-client relationship with the author, who isn’t an attorney. Every deadline and priority order named or referenced in this kit must be confirmed with a probate attorney or the probate court in your jurisdiction.
Whatever differs from one jurisdiction to the next, a deadline, a required form, where a debt ranks, becomes a numbered question in the Local Verification Checklist instead. You fill in the answer, the source, and the date you confirmed it, not a printed number.
The Core Sequence follows the order U.S. probate generally moves through, without naming a specific state. 31 U.S.C. § 3713, the one federal rule that reaches every estate, is explained with the condition that limits it. Anything that varies locally becomes a question you confirm yourself, not a printed answer.
Spreadsheets and asset trackers already fill that part of the market. This kit shows the order to work through the first months of administration instead, not a place to log every account.
It’s written for a first-time lay executor or personal representative of a U.S. estate. Trust administration runs on a different mechanism, and Title 11 trustees are expressly excluded from the federal rule this kit is built around.
41 pages, in both A4 and US Letter, fillable on screen or by hand. The two Letter Templates are also included as editable Word files.
Everything you need for the first months of estate administration, in one kit.
Sold by Lemon Squeezy as authorized reseller. Sales tax or VAT for your country is added at checkout.