File a USPS change of address as the executor of the estate, not as the person. The mail is the single best inventory tool you have — accounts, subscriptions and debts you did not know existed all announce themselves in the first three months.
The mail reveals accounts and bills you don't know about.
How: USPS forwarding as 'representative for the estate of...'. Photograph everything into Settle.
Applies in 41 of the 51 jurisdictions Settle covers.
10 jurisdictions handle this their own way:
How: USPS forwarding as 'executor for the estate of…'. Photograph everything into Settle.
How: USPS forwarding as 'personal representative for the estate of…'. Photograph everything into Settle.
How: USPS forwarding as 'representative for the estate of…'. Photograph everything into Settle.
Settle builds this checklist into a plan you can actually work
The steps above, ordered for your situation in your state, with the deadlines on a calendar, your documents attached to the step that needs them, and an expense ledger for everything the estate owes you back. The plan itself is free.
This step is estate administration procedure, not a statutory deadline, so Settle's rule tables carry no statute citation for it and none is invented here. The answer above is the guidance the app itself gives, identical in every jurisdiction it covers.
The steps that are backed by statute — filing windows, creditor periods, inventory deadlines — carry their citation and last-checked date on the state guide and in Where the state information comes from. If something here does not match what the court or your attorney told you, please write to [email protected].
This is one step out of roughly two dozen. The full sequence for your state — with the statutory deadlines, the citations behind them and the date each was last checked — is in the state executor guides.