Practical guides on digital estate planning, life story preservation, and helping the people you love when the time comes.
Your KiwiSaver does not vanish when you die, but it does not flow automatically to your family either. Here is how the balance is released, what your provider will ask for, and what families can do now to make it simpler later.
8 min readMost people die with things unsaid. Not because they did not care, but because the moment never came. Here is how to write, schedule, and send a message your family will open exactly when they need it.
7 min readMost parents want to write a letter their children will open one day. Most never do. Here is how to actually sit down and write the thing, what to include, and what to leave out.
8 min readA locked iPhone is one of the most common quiet problems NZ families face after a death. Here is what Apple actually allows, the step almost everyone skips, and the five minutes that can save your family months.
7 min readBeing named executor is a job most people learn while grieving. A plain-English checklist for the first month: who to call, what to file, and where the common traps are.
9 min readMost estates are not a filing cabinet. They are a locked phone, an unreachable email, and subscriptions still billing every month. Here is what actually happens, and what you can do now.
7 min readYour executor can manage your physical estate. But they will arrive at your digital life with no keys. Here is how to change that before it matters.
7 min readMost of what we know about our grandparents is a photograph and a sentence. Most of what they knew about themselves is gone. It does not have to go that way.
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