File a USPS change of address as the executor of the estate, not as the person. The mail is the single best inventory tool you have — accounts, subscriptions and debts you did not know existed all announce themselves in the first three months.
The mail reveals accounts and bills you don't know about.
How: You cannot do this online. To redirect the deceased's mail to yourself you must go to a Post Office IN PERSON and show documented proof that you are the appointed executor or administrator — USPS says plainly that a death certificate alone is NOT enough, so take your Letters. If you already shared the address, you may simply open and manage the mail, no filing needed. Register the name at DMAchoice.org too: advertising mail should drop within about three months. Photograph everything into Settle.
Same in all 51 jurisdictions Settle covers.
Settle builds this checklist into a plan you can actually work
The steps above, ordered for your situation in your state, with the deadlines on a calendar, your documents attached to the step that needs them, and an expense ledger for everything the estate owes you back. The plan itself is free.
Every figure on this page links to the statute or court source it came from and shows the date we last read it. All 51 citations on this page have been read against the primary statute text.
The full registry, including everything we have not confirmed, is published at Where the state information comes from. If the court or your attorney gave you a different date, please tell us at support@vertexlabsolutions.com — it is the fastest way to get it fixed for the next executor.
This is one step out of roughly two dozen. The full sequence for your state — with the statutory deadlines, the citations behind them and the date each was last checked — is in the state executor guides.