Leave your family a folder that tells them exactly what to do.
A will says who inherits. It doesn't tell your family who to ring first, which account pays the mortgage, what the super fund will ask for, or what the Supreme Court needs before anyone can touch a thing. Left Tidy does. It's the step-by-step plan for the first 7 days, 28 days and 6 months after a death in Australia, built on answers you write down once, so the people you love are never left guessing.
- Covers the three windows after a death in Australia: the first 7 days, 28 days and 6 months, each built on a real deadline.
- A step-by-step plan plus the records that feed it, in plain English, with no legal jargon.
- Twelve letters already written for the bank's deceased estates team, every super fund, the ATO, the insurers, and everyone the Death Notification Service doesn't reach.
- Super, the way it actually works here: the binding nomination that can lapse, the fund that decides, the tax an adult child pays.
- About twenty minutes to start: the three sheets your family would need first.
Left Tidy · The Complete Folder · Australian edition
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When you're gone, the admin doesn't stop. It lands on the people you love.
Between the day someone dies and the day the estate is settled, there's a run of deadlines, phone calls and forms that nobody prepares for. In Australia nobody is in charge of it: not the government, not the bank, not the super fund. It falls to the family, usually a spouse, a daughter or a son doing it for the first time. This is what it looks like from the kitchen table.
The search through the drawers
Your children go through old statements, a filing cabinet full of paper and a phone they can't unlock, trying to work out which banks, super funds and policies even exist. The title to the house. The super from a job in 1998. The policy in a shopping bag in the garage.
With the folder: every account is already listed, with what to do about it.
Your super doesn't follow your will
It follows a nomination form you signed years ago. A "lapsing" binding nomination expires after three years, and if there isn't a valid one, the fund's trustee decides who gets the money. Nobody writes to tell your family which funds exist.
With the folder: every fund, every nomination, and the date you last checked it.
Money frozen, bills still coming
The day the bank is told, an account in one name is frozen. Above about $100,000, the big four banks won't release it until the Supreme Court grants probate. Meanwhile the mortgage, the power and the strata levies keep coming.
With the folder: your family knows what exists, and which account keeps the household running.
of lost and unclaimed super sat in 7.3 million Australian accounts in 2025 (ATO, October 2025). And when a family does find the fund, ASIC's 2025 review found the slowest trustee closing just 8% of death benefit claims within 90 days.
None of that is a legal problem. It happens because nobody left a plan to follow.
"Surely they'll work it out?"
They would, in the end: after months of phone calls, a frozen account, a pension overpayment to pay back and a super fund that went quiet. What spares them those months is a plan they can follow, what to do first, who to contact next, and where everything is kept.
What Australians who've been through it say, on the public forums.
Not reviews of this folder. Real posts, quoted word for word, from people who had to find everything the hard way.
Mum was a hoarder and I've spent approximately 30 hours looking before I found the title.An executor, r/AusFinance, 2022
My Will has no legal standing on Binding Nominations.Wendy, CHOICE Community, 2022
I purchased one book some time ago which turned out to be most relevant to the US!A reader, CHOICE Community, October 2026
Fifteen phone calls over two weeks with customer service representatives that all gave different advice.A widow claiming her husband's super, ProductReview, 2025
One simple plan, in three stages: 7, 28 and 6.
It follows the real Australian deadlines: 7 days for the funeral director to register the death after the funeral (14 in Queensland and WA), 28 days at the most to tell Services Australia, and the 6-month window in which most states let a family member contest the will after the grant. At every stage the folder tells your family exactly what to do next, so nobody has to improvise.
Secure the urgent things
The first actions, in order: the doctor and, if needed, 000; the funeral director, who registers the death; two or three death certificates; the original will; the executor told; sole and joint accounts noted before any bank is called.
Without a planThe funeral paid from someone's own pocket, the household account frozen, the will found too late.
Tell the right people, in order
Services Australia and the ATO. The Death Notification Service for everyone who joined it. Then the bank's deceased estates team, every super fund, the insurers, the employer, the utilities, one by one, with the letters ready to send.
Without a planThe death explained again on every call, a pension overpayment to pay back, a super fund nobody knew about.
Settle it properly
Probate through your state's Supreme Court, the valuation, the date-of-death tax return, the super claims, the title at the land titles office. Then the debts, the claim window, and who gets what, with the documents a solicitor will ask for, in order.
Without a planThe home that can't be sold, a claim nobody saw coming, arguments in the family.
Two things in one folder: the plan, and the records that feed it.
The plan tells your family what to do. The records you fill in tell them where everything is. Every part is written for Australia, and where your state does something differently, the page says so:
- The step-by-step plan: the Start Here page with the first five things to do, the 7-28-6 calendar, Services Australia and the Death Notification Service, and who to tell, in order.
- The Family Folder: fourteen guided sheets for every account, super fund, policy and bill, the home, the phone, the enduring power of attorney, and where the will is kept.
- Twelve letters, already written: the bank, the mortgage lender, the super fund, Services Australia, the life insurer, the ATO, the share registry, the council and more. Add the name, sign and send.
- The Executor's Brief: probate fees and notices for every state, the 6-month calendar, the claim window that protects the executor, and a sheet that hands everything to a solicitor.
- The Homeowner's Pack: how the home is owned, the land titles office in your state, the forms after a death, plus the Empty House page for the keys, the pool, the mail and the insurer.
- The Fifty and The Test: the fifty questions your family will be asked in the first months, each pointing to its answer, and a twenty-minute test that proves the folder works.
- The Guide: 22 pages in plain English, every figure with its official source.
Download it immediately after purchase · fill it in on screen or print it at home · keep it all together in one folder.
See the real pages before you buy.
Swipe through twelve pages from the Australian edition, and tap any page to read it full size.
You do it once, calmly, over an afternoon.
Every sheet asks plain questions and tells you exactly what goes where, so there's no blank page, no jargon and no legal training needed. You go at your own pace, and you can stop whenever you like.
1Start with three sheets tonight
Who you are, where everything is kept, and your bank accounts. Those three answer most of what your family will be asked in the first month, and they take about twenty minutes, on screen or on paper.
2Test it on a Sunday
Hand the closed folder to the person who'd use it and start a timer. If they can find your will, the account the mortgage comes out of and the person to ring at your super fund in twenty minutes, it works. Write the date on the cover.
3Leave it where they'll look
Keep it with your will and tell one person where it is. On the day it's needed, the first page tells them what to do, and ten minutes once a year keeps everything up to date, including the super nomination before it lapses.
When that day comes, there are two versions of it.
Both families love the person they've lost. The difference is whether that person left them a plan.
Without a plan
- Drawers turned out, looking for accounts nobody knew existed
- The same death explained on call after call, in no order
- A super fund from an old job, and a nomination that lapsed years ago
- Money frozen while the mortgage and the levies keep coming
- A phone nobody can unlock, and the photos inside it
- An empty house, and an insurer who wasn't told
- One child carrying it all, the others second-guessing
- Grief, with the admin piled on top
With the folder
- Every account, super fund and policy already listed
- A clear order of who to contact, with the letters written
- Every nomination checked, nothing quietly lost
- The right steps, taken in the right order, in your state
- The way into the phone, kept where one person can find it
- The house looked after from the first week
- Everyone working from the same pages
- Room to actually grieve
One folder, with everything in it, at one price.
There are no levels to choose between and nothing to upgrade to later. Everything your family will need is in the one folder, for every state and territory.
Left Tidy · The Complete Folder · Australian edition
For anyone who wants to leave their family a plan, with or without a will.
One-off payment, no subscription
- The step-by-step plan: Start Here, the 7-28-6 calendar and who to tell
- The Family Folder: fourteen guided sheets
- Twelve notification letters, ready to send
- The Executor's Brief, the 6-month calendar and probate for every state
- The Homeowner's Pack and the Empty House page
- The Fifty, The Test and the Digital Doors page
- The Guide, 22 pages in plain English
- Every state and territory, the differences flagged
- For couples: one folder covers both of you
- Download immediately after purchase, plus Word versions
- 60-day money-back guarantee
NSW Trustee & Guardian charges 4.4% of the first $300,000 to administer an estate: $4,400 on a $100,000 estate, $33,000 on a million (2026). The folder doesn't replace a solicitor or a trustee. It gives your family, or whoever helps them, everything they'll ask for on the first day.
A simple 60-day money-back guarantee
Open the folder, read the Guide, fill in the first sheets and run The Test with your family. If you don't feel it helps them know what to do, let us know within 60 days and we'll refund you in full. No forms and no questions.
Everything you might be wondering
Is it just a place to write things down?
No, and that's the important part. It's a step-by-step plan: what to do, who to contact and in what order, across the first 7 days, 28 days and 6 months. The sheets you fill in feed that plan, so your family can simply follow it.
We've already made a will. Do we still need this?
A will says who inherits. It doesn't tell your family where everything is, which super fund to call, what to cancel or who to contact first, and it has no say over your super at all: that follows a separate nomination form. That practical plan is what the folder gives them, and the two work together, so keep the folder with your will.
Each state is different. How can one folder cover Australia?
Because the path is the same almost everywhere: the funeral director registers the death, Services Australia is told, the Supreme Court grants probate, super passes under its nomination. Where your state differs, the folder says so on the page: 14 days to register in Queensland and WA, the probate fees and notices for each court, the land titles office and its forms, the claim window for contesting a will, and the different names for the power of attorney, including the Advance Personal Plan in the Northern Territory. There's a line on the first sheet for the state you live in.
Is it posted to me?
No. You download it immediately after purchase. Fill it in on screen and save it on your computer, or print it at home and keep it in a folder you already own. There's nothing to wait for and nothing to lose in the post.
Do I need a printer?
No. Every sheet can be filled in on screen and saved, and Word versions are included. If you'd like your family to have something on paper, print the seven "When the time comes" pages they'll open first, starting with Start Here and the calendar. Any home printer will do, or Officeworks, a library or a print shop.
Is my information safe?
Nothing you type is sent to us: the file stays on your own computer, with no account, app or cloud. A bank PIN, a full card number or your myGov login never goes in the folder, because an executor never needs them and nobody may use your myGov. Passwords go on one sheet only, written in full or as where each one is kept, and the folder belongs somewhere safe, like a locked drawer or with your will.
Doesn't the Australian Death Notification Service cover everything?
No. It's free and worth using, but it only reaches the organisations that have joined it, it can't be used until the death is registered, and it tells: it doesn't close an account, claim the super or release anything. Each bank, super fund and insurer still asks the family for its own documents, and the ones that haven't joined are told one by one. The twelve letters cover those, in order.
Who writes this, and is it Australian?
Left Tidy is a family folder first written for the UK and rebuilt page by page for Australia, by the same people. Every rule, fee and deadline in the Australian edition was checked against the official source in November 2026: Services Australia, the ATO, your state's registry and Supreme Court, the big four banks' own deceased estates pages, the super rules. The sources are printed in the Guide so you can check them yourself. Nothing is imported from an American planner: no social security, no 401(k), no living trust.
Isn't it a bit morbid?
It's the opposite. It's organising, the same as keeping your insurance papers in order, and it's far kinder to do it now, calmly, than to leave it to someone in shock.
Can I buy it for Mum or Dad?
Yes. Buy it, share the file and fill in the first sheet together. "I'm doing mine, will you do yours with me?" is the easiest way to bring it up.
What if I buy it and never fill it in?
Start with the three sheets that matter most: they take about twenty minutes. Then run The Test on a Sunday. And if it isn't right for you, the 60-day guarantee means you get your money back.
Is it legal advice?
No. It isn't a will, and it isn't legal, tax or financial advice. It's the practical plan for everything a will doesn't cover, and it tells your family when a solicitor, the Public Trustee or an accountant is worth calling.
One last thing for the people you love
You've looked after them all your life. Make the last thing you leave them easy to follow.
One afternoon now spares them months of searching later. Start with three sheets tonight, test it on a Sunday, and leave it where they'll look.
€43,95, once · 60-day money-back guarantee · every state and territory
Left Tidy is not a will, and it is not legal, tax or financial advice. It is a practical plan and organiser that helps your family find what they need and know where to start. Rules, fees and deadlines differ between states and territories and change every year, so check the current position with the official body named on each page, or with a solicitor.