Deal with DeathLegal & Estate
Legal & Estate
Probate, the will, the executor’s authority, the final filing. Someone has to keep the estate attorney’s process moving and the paperwork organized. That someone should be your account coordinator, not you.
You don’t have to understand probate to get through it.
Your Otherside Life account coordinator keeps your case moving, filing by filing.
We run the probate-versus-small-estate triage for your state and coordinate matching with a probate attorney.
We track the filing checklist: letters to heirs and creditors, and bond requirements.
We coordinate distributions against the will, or the intestacy order, and the final accounting.
We stay reachable on the 24/7 concierge line the whole time this is being coordinated.
Estate attorneys are listed in a neutral directory, not billed through us — you work with and pay the attorney directly.
Legal coordination runs alongside every coordination tier, not inside one.
The First 500 Hours
That’s confirming the probate path, tracking filing deadlines and letters to heirs and creditors, and coordinating the final accounting with a probate attorney. Twenty hours is the single biggest chunk of the roughly 570-hour total — the part of estate-closing that eats the most time you don’t have while you’re grieving.
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Tell your account coordinator what matters to your family, and let them handle the rest.
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