Where Estates Go Sideways
The estates that go sideways are the ones where something surfaced late.
Most administrations are routine until they aren’t: a later codicil turns up, an heir was never given notice, an account never made the inventory, a creditor claim arrives that nobody logged, a sibling questions every line of the accounting. The answers are almost always somewhere in the decedent’s papers. The work is reading all of them, in order, before the court or the family asks.
Open the Administration on Solid Ground
Saxon reads the will and any codicils, the death certificate, and the family information, then lays out the named personal representative, the beneficiaries, and the heirs entitled to notice. Your team drafts the petition and notice list from a cited record instead of rebuilding it from memory.
Find Every Asset and Every Claim
Saxon works through statements, deeds, tax returns, mail, and bills to build a cited inventory, separating probate assets from what passes outside the estate. Creditor claims are logged against the record, and dates that appear in the file are flagged so your attorneys can act.
What Makes This Repeatable: Playbooks
Playbooks turn your firm’s best probate habits into the default process: the asset sweep through the decedent’s mail, the heir-list check, the claim log, the accounting reconciliation. A simple administration and a contested estate get the same disciplined review, whoever is running the file.
One Estate File, Start to Finish
Petition, letters, notice, inventory and appraisal, creditor claims, accountings, and distribution all draw on the same cited record. If a will contest or a beneficiary objection arrives, the history is already organized. The record built for the petition carries through to the closing order.