When a person passes away, it’s a time for loved ones to grieve. But in the background, it also brings many tasks to settle an estate, from mail forwarding and closing accounts to locating and determining the eventual destination for assets.

As an estate lawyer at DLA Piper, Leah Del Percio saw this process up close. There can be a lot to it. And with most executors being guided by attorneys but carrying out the tasks themselves, she said it presented another burden for folks who were already going through an emotional time.

She thought, “if we can put a rover on Mars, we can make this process more efficient for people,” she said. “The way it’s done now, it causes such a headache for people grieving.”

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