Settled publishes long-form writing for families in the middle of dividing a parent's belongings. Less advice, more company. Quiet, practical, honest.
The belongings of a long life have to go somewhere. A quiet guide for families in the moment they dread, whether the parent is moving into care, has recently been widowed, or has died. What to do, what to avoid, and how to keep the family intact.
Read the guide →A practical guide for the moment a parent leaves the family home for assisted living, memory care, or a care home. Covers capacity and power of attorney, the six steps to fair division, what to do with items no one wants, and when to bring in a senior move manager.
Read the guide →The methods families use to divide an estate and a parent's personal belongings between siblings after death. Round-robin, stickers, lottery, cash equalisation, and private bidding compared. How to handle contested items, extended family, heirlooms from grandparents, and unclaimed property.
Read the guide →The keepsakes cause more trouble than the valuables. How families sort them into three groups, decide the contested few, share photographs and letters, handle grandchildren and in-laws, and let go of the things nobody wants.
Read the guide →Ground rules, a photo inventory, private point-based bidding and a dated record: the fair way for siblings to divide a parent's belongings, step by step.
Read the guide →A calm order of operations for the hardest clearout a family will ever do: the house first, the paperwork, the photos, the sorting, the dividing, and the rest.
Read the guide →One of you lives near the house and the rest are a flight away. How to help a parent move somewhere smaller without the work, or the decisions, landing on one person.
Read the guide →The house is still a home, and one person still lives in it. How families sort a late parent's belongings with the surviving parent, at that parent's pace.
Read the guide →Settled helps a family divide a parent's belongings, fairly and without argument. One person pays once. Everyone else joins free.
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