Planning ahead · Special report
More and more families are filling in their kit while they still can: at the kitchen table, on paper or on screen.
Every year in Ireland, around 35,000 families have to sort out the affairs someone leaves behind. And almost every one of them discovers the same thing at the worst possible moment: nobody knows where the paperwork is, which accounts exist, or who to ring first.
The solicitor and the Probate Office deal with the legal side. But they can't start until the family brings them the information. It's that list, the one only you know, that decides whether your executors face a few organised weeks, or many months of chasing. As one customer put it in his review: a will says who inherits; it doesn't tell anyone what to do.
These are jobs nobody thinks about in advance. You assume you could list everything from memory, then you put it on paper and see the gaps: an old life policy, a pension from a job you left in the nineties, a credit union account or An Post State Savings bought decades ago, a direct debit that's been quietly running for twelve years.
And everything that only exists on a screen: online banking, the codes on your phone, accounts no paper statement ever mentions. The kit asks the questions one by one, and it's in answering them that you find what you'd never have written down.
“The personal and financial forms have concentrated our minds. Listing and explaining income and expenditure has been an eye opener: there is so much, and days later we keep thinking of things to add. Explaining where everything is has again made us sort and rationalise.”
A death comes with a calendar, and the calendar doesn't wait. In Ireland the death must be registered within 3 months, and where Capital Acquisitions Tax is due the beneficiary files and pays by 31 Octoberunder Revenue's pay & file deadline; after that, interest runs.
The kit sets out what happens when. It doesn't replace a solicitor: it means your executor doesn't start months behind, with half the paperwork missing.
“An essential package to make life as easy as possible for your executor. Everything is here, well laid out and easy to follow. […] A few hours collecting the information will save days of worry for those sorting out your estate and trying to find where everything is.”
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The subject is hard, and the process is genuinely complicated. That double burden is exactly why we all put it off: the admin after a death seems to have no visible beginning and no visible end, so the folder never gets opened.
Here, everything is broken into three windows. The plan takes your family by the hand and walks them through each task and each deadline:
They do one thing at a time, and they know nothing has been skipped. One reviewer (twenty years in the justice system, and sceptical at first) described exactly that:
“I was very skeptical as to whether this ‘Estate Kit’ would meet my expectation. […] The detail within was comprehensive, and above all easy to follow. I found it easy to follow how each part of the ‘Family Folder’ was coming together by following the 3-stage process.”
Bank, life policy, pensions, insurers, Local Property Tax, direct debits, subscriptions, online logins: your admin life is scattered across dozens and dozens of documents that only you know about.
Many of our customers had already started: a notebook here, a few notes for the family there. The kit does the same job, properly organised: everything ends up in one single folder, with the stages to follow in order.
“I have a Will… but it's all the bits of information such as bank accounts, subscriptions, passwords etc, that are needed by your executors and are not readily known to anyone but ourselves, and are certainly not detailed in a Will. […] The Kit enables you to put it all in one folder for whoever has to deal with all that has to happen when you die.”
Even well-organised families discover this. Wills prepared, powers of attorney in place, wishes written down, and still nobody but you knows what exists, or what order to do things in. Your children know where you live and who you bank with. They almost never know the rest.
And there's no safety net waiting: Ireland has no Tell Us Once service. Every body has to be told separately: the Department of Social Protection, Revenue, the HSE, the NDLS, and then every bank, insurer and utility one by one. In most couples, one person handles the paperwork. If that's you, the other will be left alone in front of a system they've never had to touch.
“I thought we had things organised (wills prepared, powers of attorney in place, wishes written down). This kit showed us what order we needed to do things in and how much we needed to write down so that our executor could carry out his duties when we aren't around.”
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This is where most guides sold online stop: you download, and then… silence. Here, you can ask questions while you're filling it in, and a real person replies and helps you through. On Trustpilot, “customer communications” is one of the two things reviewers mention most.
A section you're not sure about, a situation that doesn't fit any box: you get a clear answer, quickly. The My Estate Kit team is available by email 6 days a week, for as long as you need.
“The follow up was much appreciated. It makes a nice change to know that there's a team waiting to answer any questions after the purchase.”
These aren't people who saw death coming. They're people who decided not to leave the mess to their children, and 86% of the reviews they've left on Trustpilot are five stars.
There's a lot in it, and nobody does it in one sitting: you fill it in bit by bit, a little each weekend, at your own pace and with no last-minute rush. That's what they say themselves, publicly, in their verified reviews.
Their reviews are what we’re proudest of.
Verified customerI went through it all when my mother died in 2019. Fourteen months of chaos, and my sister and I have barely spoken since. When I saw the kit, I knew I couldn’t leave that to my own children. Filled in over two weekends. My daughter hugged me and said, “Mum, this is the best present you’ve ever given me.”
Verified customerI’d already bought three books on wills and probate that just sat on the shelf. This is different: they’re sheets you fill in; you don’t have to understand everything first. Twenty years of nursing taught me that families fall out over the practical side, not the will. A will says who inherits; it doesn’t tell anyone what to do. This does.
Verified customerMy wife passed very suddenly last year. Without the kit, I honestly think I’d have gone under. I took out the folder and followed the three windows, one at a time. Our four children stayed close, and everything was settled calmly, step by step.
Verified customerI came in with the folder filled in by hand. He read two pages, looked up and said he wished every family walked in like this. The appointment booked for an hour and a half took thirty-five minutes. It’s a practical kit, not a theory book.
Verified customerWe did ours together one wet Sunday afternoon. My wife and I each filled in our own, then compared notes. It’s the first time in forty years of marriage we’ve talked about what happens after us without raising our voices. What a relief.
At the moment, The Family Handover Kit is only available from the official My Estate Kit website.
⚠️ A −50% launch offer is currently running, for as long as it lasts.
Here's how it works:
Step 1: order your kit today to take advantage of the current offer.
Step 2: everything arrives by email within minutes. It's a digital kit. You can fill it in on your computer or tablet, or print it at home and fill it in by hand; it's designed for both.
Step 3: work through it section by section, at your own pace. Then tell one person you trust where it's kept. That's it.
One piece of advice: if one of your parents is past 70 and the subject has never once been raised, this is often the easiest way to finally have the conversation. One couple wrote in their review that they bought it ahead of a sit-down with their two children, and that it was “the ideal kit” for exactly that.
Rated “Excellent” on Trustpilot · 86% five-star reviews
