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Stories from South African families and practitioners.
Real accounts gathered with the consent of the families and practitioners who shared them. Some are anonymised composites, built from cases we know directly, where we could not publish an identifiable family's account. Composites are clearly labelled. Every story is reviewed by a human before it is published.
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Why I built When I Am Gone
A letter from our founder, written after years of sitting across the table from families in crisis.
As an attorney, I have sat across the table from surviving spouses at some of the hardest moments of their lives. The estate is illiquid. The documents are missing. And the grief has to wait while the administration piles up.
24 April 2026Read story
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Family stories4 February 2026Composite
The month the bond nearly cost the house
The house was the family's. The bond was the bank's. The executor's fee was the bit nobody had planned for.
First 72 hours18 February 2026Composite
The Friday night call
Friday, 21:14. The hospital phones. By Sunday afternoon, you will have spoken to nine people you did not know on Thursday.
Practitioner2 March 2026Composite
The letter the attorney kept
The will was clear. The letter, written eighteen months earlier, was clearer still, and it was the letter that held the family together.
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