Every date Settle shows is an estimate, and every one of them says to confirm it with the court. This release gives you somewhere to put the answer, and a way to get it in one phone call. WHAT THE COURT TOLD YOU On any step, record the date the court or clerk actually gave you, and who said it. From that moment Settle schedules by the court's date instead of its own: reminders, the overdue flag, the timeline, the handoff packet. Your date shows as the only one in the app that is not an estimate — and Settle keeps its own guess visible beside it, so you can see where it was wrong. ASK THE CLERK A list of every date Settle has estimated and you have not yet confirmed, written as the questions to ask the probate clerk, with the statute to name if they ask. Rules Settle has not been able to read at the source come first, because those are the estimates to trust least. Tap a question, record the answer, and it leaves the list. Also in this release: eighteen more state rules read at the government that publishes them, Minnesota's one-year creditor bar, Virginia's probate-tax exemption, Oklahoma's two small-estate thresholds, and a corrected citation for the District of Columbia.

This release is corrections, not features. We re-read the law behind Settle's state rules at the government that publishes it — one statute at a time — and five of them turned out to be wrong. Connecticut's 150 days is not a deadline for creditors. It stops the executor being charged for what they already paid out in good faith, and that protection is lost for any claim the executor knew about. The old wording told you that you were safe when you might not have been. Montana has no statutory fee percentage at all. The section says "reasonable compensation" and nothing more. Settle was showing a schedule that is not in the statute, so it has been removed and replaced with what a Montana court actually weighs. Maine bars claims nine months after the death whatever the notice says, and that clock was missing. Indiana's inventory is due in two months, not sixty days. Wyoming gives creditors three months, full stop — the extra thirty days we showed is your deadline to mail them, not theirs to file. Eight more states gained a second clock, an outer limit, or an exception that applies after the deadline has passed. And where a rule still has not been read at its source, Settle now says so on that screen instead of letting it look as certain as the rest.

Distributing before the creditor claim period closes is the costliest mistake an executor can make — a late claim comes out of your own pocket. Settle has always warned you about it. Now it shows you the actual rule. On the distribution step you'll find your state's creditor claim period in the state's own words, the statute it comes from, and when that section was last checked at its source. Settle does not calculate the deadline, and now says so plainly. Most states count that period from the first publication of the notice to creditors — a date you get from the newspaper, not one the app holds — and ten states run more than one clock at once. Guessing on your behalf is the one thing that would make this screen worse, so Settle names what the period runs from and sends you to the court for the date. Also in this release: corrected two states whose rules were filed under the wrong heading, so neither can show up as a claim deadline it never was.

A Today screen that answers "what now?", and the dates the law actually counts from. • Today — your progress, the next three steps chosen for where you actually are, what's due and what you're waiting on, in one place. • The dates the law counts from — add the date of death or the date the court appointed you, and the steps whose statute we've read are counted from the real trigger instead of the day you built your plan. 48 states now carry at least one, including California, Texas, Florida, Illinois and New York. Both dates optional, both clearable. • Timeline — every date now says whether your state set it or Settle suggested it. • Do I need probate? — your state's own published limits, measured against the figures you entered, with the statute behind each one. • What's complicated here — spots the things people usually get help with, and says what Settle keeps doing for you anyway. • Family update — share progress with relatives without exposing a single figure unless you choose to. • Attorney / CPA packet — everything in one PDF, plus a timeline and the open questions worth asking. • Search the whole estate at once, assign steps to the people helping you, and file documents against the asset or debt they belong to. • Scanning a document now reads it on your device and suggests how to file it. Nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing is filled in until you tap it. • Reminders are now one notification a day at most, and never name anything on your lock screen. • Better contrast, larger type support throughout, and Reduce Motion is respected.

Report a wrong deadline. Every step now has "This doesn't match what I was told" under its source panel — if the court or your attorney gives you a different date, one tap writes to us with the step and the statute already filled in. We read every one. A new Contact screen in More, with the same reporting for bugs and billing. It shows you exactly what the message carries before you send it: app version, iOS, device and your state. Nothing about the estate — not the name, not the institutions, not a single amount. Clearer about what the Estate Pass is for. The step-by-step plan, the estate inventory and the notice tracker are free and stay free. The Pass covers unlimited documents and ledger entries beyond the first ten of each, and the PDF reports. Also in this release: • Corrected the description of document filing — you choose the type and institution, and can search on those afterwards • Florida's will-deposit deadline and Ohio's inventory deadline re-checked against the statutes Settle is an organizational tool, not a law firm, and nothing in it is legal advice.

Notices — a new tab that keeps track of every bank, insurer, agency and utility you have to tell: what you sent, when you sent it, and who still hasn't written back. Open a step like "Notify banks" and Settle offers to start a thread for each institution already in your inventory, so you never type the same name twice. The whole plan is now free. Every step for your state, with nothing held back. Every step now shows where it came from. Tap "Where this comes from" to see the statute or court source behind it and the date we last checked it. Steps your state's law requires are labelled separately from steps that are simply good practice — so you can tell the difference at a glance. Assets can now be marked as passing outside probate. A payable-on-death account or a life policy with a named beneficiary is kept out of the court inventory and out of the executor-fee basis, where it belongs. Also in this release: • "What you'll need" on each step, ticked off against the documents already in your vault • A "Waiting on others" card, so you can see at a glance what isn't yours to move • Corrections to state content across all 51 jurisdictions, including Kentucky's creditor deadline, Florida's small-estate threshold and Social Security survivor-benefit guidance • The receipt packet PDF no longer overlaps long entries • The executor fee estimator no longer shows a percentage for states that don't set one — it shows what the court actually weighs instead Settle is an organizational tool, not a law firm, and nothing in it is legal advice.