After a death there’s a stretch of admin no will can cover — the frozen account, the super sitting in a separate trust, Centrelink’s 28-day clock, probate through your state’s Supreme Court. The Aussie Estate Kit is the step-by-step plan for it: what to do, who to notify and in what order, across the first 48 hours, 28 days and 6 months. So your family isn’t left guessing.
Everything you leave behind sits in three separate systems — and no one, not the bank, not the fund, not the government, is in charge of pulling them together for your family. That job lands on the people you love, in the middle of their grief. Here’s the gap —
It names who inherits. But probate, intestacy and family-provision rules change the moment you cross a state line — eight different systems, no national document.
In the kit: where the will is, who the executor is, and the probate path for your state.
Your super doesn’t follow your will. The fund’s trustee decides, unless you have a valid binding death benefit nomination — and those lapse after three years without you knowing.
In the kit: the super & BDBN register — every fund, every nomination, kept current.
A solo account freezes the moment the bank is told; only joint accounts pass to the survivor. The home follows land-title survivorship rules that vary by state.
In the kit: every account listed, how the home is owned, and what to do with each.
They’d work it out eventually — over many stressful months, with a frozen account, a lapsed super nomination and a dozen organisations to ring one by one. They don’t just need your information. They need a plan — what to do, who to notify, and in what order.
It follows the real sequence in Australia — each number a real deadline, not a marketing line — in the order your family will meet it. Each stage tells them exactly what to do next, so no one has to improvise.
The first actions, in order: engage the funeral director (they register the death with your state's Births, Deaths and Marriages), find the will and confirm the executor, order several certified death certificates, and note which accounts are solo and which are joint — before anyone tells the bank.
Tell Centrelink within 28 days if any payment was being received. Use the Australian Death Notification Service once the death certificate arrives, then notify everyone it misses — each super fund, every bank, the ATO, Medicare, insurers and utilities — with a register of every account and ready-to-send letters. And start the super claims: one per fund.
The steps to close the estate: the grant of probate or letters of administration through your state's Supreme Court (with the notice filed 14 days beforehand where required), the date-of-death tax return, debts, the home and distribution — without distributing too early, because in NSW the protected window runs 6 months.
The order never changes — the kit flags where your state or territory differs.
Nothing generic, nothing imported — every part is written for Australia:
📧 Delivered instantly by email · 🖨 printed at home · kept in one folder.
Guided questions and clear sections — no blank-page overwhelm, no jargon, no legal training required. You fill it in at your own pace, print it, and keep it together.
“I did it over one wet Sunday with a cuppa. It isn’t a notebook — it’s a plan my two can actually follow. Such a relief to finally have it done and know they won’t be left guessing.”
“I’ve been executor for two estates in my family. The first, we had nothing to go on — it took the better part of a year, and I was still finding accounts at the end of it. The second time there was a plan, filled in, in one folder. Same amount of paperwork. Completely different year.”
When my husband passed, the bank froze his account the day we told them and I had no idea his super wasn't even in the will. I filled this in over a weekend so my two never have to play detective the way I did.
I'd genuinely never checked whether my binding nomination had lapsed. It had. Sorted it that afternoon. The 48-28-6 plan just makes plain sense — no jargon, no fluff.
Thought it'd be morbid. It wasn't — it was a relief. Everything's in one folder now: the will, the super fund, the accounts, who to ring first. My daughter knows exactly where it is.
What got me is it tells you what to do and when — the Centrelink 28 days, the probate notice, the lot. My wife wouldn't have known where to start. Now she's got a map.
I'd read the ADNS page, the ATO page, the Centrelink page — all separate, all confusing. This puts them in order, all in one spot. Best fifty-odd dollars I've spent for peace of mind.
Two funds, an old one from a job I left years back, and I'd never told anyone. Sat down one evening and put the lot on the register: fund names, the nomination, the account numbers. My son won't have to go hunting.
I had most of the information written down somewhere. What I didn't have was the order — who to ring first, what waits for the death certificate, what waits for probate. That's what this gives you, and it's the part that matters.
Working through the register I remembered an old fund from a job back in the nineties — I'd never told a soul about it. It's on the sheet now, nomination and all. Without this, that money would simply have been lost.
We printed two sets, sat at the kitchen table after dinner and worked through it section by section. Done by nine o'clock. The kids know exactly where both folders are now.
Most families who own a home choose the Settled Family Pack. Every kit is a one-off payment in AUD, delivered by email to print at home, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. We never touch your estate.
Just the basics, done properly.
Ideal if you own a home.
If you have a larger estate or several heirs.
Not sure? Most families who own a home choose The Settled Family Pack. Probate help from a solicitor runs into the thousands — from $49, this kit is what makes the whole thing simpler for the people you love.
Download the kit, read the plan, print the sheets and start filling them in at your own pace. If you don’t feel it helps your family know what to do, just email raphael@theestatekit.comwithin 30 days. We’ll refund you in full — no forms, no fuss.
A will says who inherits. It doesn't cover your super (that sits in a separate trust, outside the will), your joint accounts, or the actual to-do list your family faces — who to notify, in what order and by when, across the 48 hours, 28 days and 6 months that follow a death. This kit is the plan that goes with the will. The two work together.
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