No One Settles Alone
Settling an estate costs money at the worst possible time. If our prices would hurt, you don't pay them.
How it works
One honest attestation, no documents demanded. You tell us, in a sentence, that money is tight. We take your word. The paid features unlock for your estate, free. Nobody reviews your bank statements, nobody asks follow-up questions, and nothing about your account is marked differently.
Why so simple? Because asking a grieving person to prove poverty is a second indignity, and we're not doing it. A few people will use this who could pay. That's a fine price for never once making the wrong person beg.
Using it
During the founding preview everything is already free, so there's nothing to do yet. Once payments go live, the attestation will be a single checkbox at checkout — it will say, roughly: "Paying for this right now would be a hardship." Checking it is the entire process.
How this gets paid for
Worth being straight about, because “free” always comes from somewhere. Three things fund it:
Mostly, customers who pay. The margin on a $99 or $199 sale covers a fair number of free users, because our costs per estate are small — this is software, and nobody is billing hours against your file.
Optional extra payments. When checkout goes live there will be an optional extra amount, defaulted to nothing. Some people want to cover someone else, and we'd rather let them than pretend the free tier is costless.
And a deliberate choice about who we serve. Services that charge a percentage of the estate — 1% with a $9,000 minimum is a real example — cannot afford to help a $50,000 estate at all. We can, because a small estate costs us almost exactly what a large one does.
The precise version: those optional extra payments are additional payment for the product. They are not charitable donations, they are not tax-deductible, and IdaMil LLC is a for-profit company rather than a charity. We keep saying this the boring way on purpose — a company that blurs the line between “paying us” and “giving to charity” is a company doing something wrong.
What we don't do
We don't ask for pay stubs, benefit letters, or an explanation. We don't keep a list of who used the program. We don't mark your account, limit what you can access, put you behind paying users for support, or send you offers because you used it. There is no cap on how many people can use it, and if that becomes a problem it is our problem, not yours.
Legal aid partners
Some situations need a lawyer, not software — disputes, minor children, insolvent estates. If you work at a legal aid organization or a law school clinic and want us to route people to you, we'd genuinely love that.
Not a substitute for advice
This program makes our software free — it doesn't make us lawyers. If your situation is flagged for an attorney, your plan will say so plainly, and legal aid may be able to help at no cost.