- Lynne from Texas
- Recently my dad passed away and it was very apparent that my brothers and I were going to have issues on who was going to get my dad’s personal effects and prized possessions. As his only daughter, I wanted to get what I believed he would want me to have, but not do it in a way to create tension and long lasting divisions and relationship issues. So, as the Executor of my dad’s estate, I went searching for a better way to do this rather than each family member just grabbing what they wanted.
Dad’s will dealt with the financial assets, but we were left to decide what to do with the numerous personal items that tugged on everyone’s heart. More importantly, my family was geographically dispersed and we needed a way to divide the estate since we could not be in the same place at the same time. What’s more, the elimination of the need to be face-to-face alleviated the potential tension that could arise.
When I found eDivvyup I knew right away that this cool application would make the process go smoothly. I give all the credit to eDivvyup for making the interaction between me and my brothers much easier. At an already emotional time, eDivvyup took all the stress and in-fighting out of the process.
I believe dad would have been pleased with how we handled the process with help from eDivvyup. In the end, eDivvyup was a great way of dealing with the inevitable that we all will face someday and it was fun.
- S Bowden from Illinois
- Last year my mother died suddenly from a heart attack, which left our entire family in shock. She had a will in place, but no one had ever really talked about all of the personal belongings and treasures she and my father had accumulated over the years. I have two siblings that lived close by and unfortunately, I lived a plane ride away.
In the years immediately preceding my mother’s death, one of my siblings had constantly been visiting our mother, advising her on what to do with her estate. Little did my other sister and I know that she was planning on keeping the majority of mother’s prized possessions.
My sister had even gone to the extent of making a list of items she thought she was entitled to have. After all, her perspective was that during the last two years she had been the closest and had invested more of her time in caring for our mother. Therefore, why shouldn’t she get most of the prized possessions? The rest of us did not feel the same and sought an alternative solution.
Of the estate left by my mother and my father, who had passed away two years previously, it was now time to figure out what to do with their most valuable personal possessions. The items included those that the children would cherish in order to keep my mother’s memory alive. Mother and father had antiques which had been collected over the decades, old toys that held special memories and were collectibles, sterling silverware earrings, crystal, and jewelry.
I started to wonder how in the world we were ever going to agree on dividing up all of these treasures between the family members. So, I started surfing the web, relying on Google to help me find a solution that would guide our family in a civil and dignified way. That’s when I found eDivvyup; it was the answer to my prayers.
From the ease of using the application to the fun we as family actually had doing the eBay-like auction to the final resolution, eDivvyup was a great tool. eDivvyup took care of all the assets and allowed us to succeed in satisfying all of our needs in a calm and dignified way, without tearing our family apart.