Afterward

Ledger of Legacy

Open the ledger

Who to send it to

Three people. Three notes. No pitch deck.

Copy one. Send it yourself. The handout after a death stays free so they can recommend it. The book you write while you are alive is what a household pays to keep.

  • A probate lawyer

    The file opens because someone has died.

    A free Georgia organizer — no fee, your name is not on it

    I built a free organizer for the person settling a Georgia estate. It is not a filing and not legal advice. Nothing is uploaded. There is no referral fee, and your firm’s name is not on it as counsel. The part families actually use is a checklist, the accounts still open, and one page for the siblings instead of a forty-message thread. The Georgia path says where a petition often starts. It does not tell them to file it. If you open the DeKalb sample (Nell Hayes) and would not hand the link to a client, tell me the sentence that stops you.

  • An estate-planning lawyer

    The client is alive and still deciding.

    A household book your client can finish between appointments

    Afterward has a book for people who are still here. It is not a will and not a Georgia advance directive. It asks where those papers live, who speaks if they cannot, and what they want when they are gone — burial or cremation, a funeral home or none, a letter so the family is not guessing. The after-death checklist stays free, so you can still hand that out with no fee. The book is the part a household keeps. It stays on their phone. Passwords are not stored, only where the manager lives. If a client of yours would use it, the sample is James Whitfield in Chatham County.

  • A funeral home

    A family is planning ahead, or standing in the first week.

    Two free pages — one before, one the week after

    Afterward is a Georgia household book, not a marketplace and not a booking tool. Before: a person writes the arrangements in ordinary words while they can still say them. Disposition, whether anything is prepaid, who to call, what the obituary should hold. After: the person left to do the work gets a checklist and a one-page update for the family. It is not a contract with your home and it does not send you leads. If you keep a card by the arrangement desk, it can say only this: free, stays on their phone, not a lawyer.

The half-page a probate firm can print is on the counsel card.