Estate & After Death Support: Legacy Navigator

You’re grieving. You shouldn’t have to manage everything alone.

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When someone dies, someone else becomes responsible for everything.

We step in as your guide and support system, handling logistics, organizing the process, and helping you move forward step by step.

After a death, families are often asked to make decisions, find documents, answer questions, return calls, secure property, sort belongings, manage deadlines, and begin the long administrative process of settling a home or estate, with urgency, and all while grieving.

Legacy Navigator support is for the space between loss and the final resolution, especially where no additional directions have been provided.

This work may begin in the first hours after a death, when there are immediate practical needs: securing the home, checking on pets, changing locks, stopping deliveries, locating paperwork, identifying next steps, or helping the family understand what needs attention first.

It may also begin weeks or months later, when the funeral is over but the paperwork, belongings, bills, calls, forms, appointments, and unanswered questions are still there.

Some families need someone beside them through the whole process. Some need help for one difficult day. Some need a clear list, a phone call plan, or help understanding what the attorney, court, funeral home, bank, or accountant is asking for.

The level of support depends on the family, the estate, the home, the timeline, etc.

When This Support Helps

We Start Where You Are

If you have just lost someone, you may not know what kind of support to ask for. That is okay.

We can begin with what is most immediate: what has happened, who is involved, and what feels urgent. From there, we can identify the next right steps.

Support can be brief or ongoing. It can begin in the first hours after a death or be near the end of the process when the final loose ends still need attention.

You do not have to arrive with a plan. We can make one together.

For more information on Legacy Navigator services, click here.

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We’re here to help you handle everything. We’ll walk you through this.

Legacy Navigator support is generally billed at $250/hour. Larger or ongoing matters may be structured with an initial retainer, phased estimates, and regular check-ins about scope and cost. You can review more detailed pricing and cost information here.

Interested in how a Legacy Woven Blueprint can ease the process for our loved ones after your death? Click here.