FairSplit Transformed Estate Settlement into a Peaceful Multigenerational Bonding Experience

After getting started with FairSplit, we realized that there was a task ahead of us, which was getting all the assets photographed and described. But as we got into it, it ended up being a very fun process for the local family to go through all the memories in the house and to write a little description about them. It was very, very worthwhile in the end because it made the process for the rest of the family very easy. My name is Jennifer Nichols. I live in McLean, Virginia, and I am happily retired. My brother and I are, uh, the, the executors of my parents' estate, and we are the fifth and sixth of six kids. And as we were discussing on how best to distribute the assets in my parents' estate after their passing, it was clear to us that we needed a tool to help us get the assets to the family efficiently and without conflict. The family members live from California to Washington, DC, and we just knew that this might be logistically hard for everyone to come to the family house and to divide the property. So that was the beginning of our search for something to help us. My husband's family had already gone through this, and it was a very tedious process, and it was a little bit of conflict involved. So on my research on trying to find a tool to help us with this, I came across FairSplit online, and it just looked like an amazing tool to help us through this process, and it ended up being just that. It was not only administratively a great tool, it ended up being a very bonding experience for all of our family. After using FairSplit and deciding on the process, my brother and I w-were relieved of this responsibility of being in the middle of dividing, uh, the family treasures, so to speak. So after using it, it just created, um, a sense of peace, really, for both of us that we got out of the middle of that process. Previous experience with my husband's, uh, estate division and just knowing what other families have gone through, using FairSplit just made this process seamless in many ways. So, you know, we're all up in age and have our grown kids, so we were able to give our kids access to the website, so they could look as well to see if there were things that they wanted. So it became a very multigenerational process that I was not expecting. In considering FairSplit, I would say the best part of using the program was the memories and the legacy of our family's heritage that was able to be preserved through the pictures and the website and being able to divide these fairly and equitably among the family.