North Carolina
North Carolina is first. It is not open.
We are not taking cases in North Carolina yet. This page is here so you can see where we intend to start, and so we do not pretend a state is open when the rulepack for it is still a draft.
We are not taking cases yet. Arizona and North Carolina are first. We will not open in a state until a lawyer licensed there has reviewed a complete filing packet we produced, because the alternative is finding out we were wrong using somebody’s actual estate. Ask us to write when that changes.
Why North Carolina is early
- The state wrote an explicit safe harbor for document software after LegalZoom. That does not make us a lawyer, and we will not act like one. It does mean the line is written down.
- Estates in North Carolina run through the clerk of court in a way that is unusually tractable: fewer mystery local rules than a county-by-county maze.
- We still put a North Carolina-licensed lawyer on any filing that is the practice of law. The software does not sign.
A lawyer licensed in North Carolina will review a complete packet we produced before anyone's estate goes through this system. Until that happens, there is nothing to buy.
We do not publish filing fees, small-estate dollar thresholds, or county processing times on this site until a named person has verified them against the current statute and the clerk. A wrong number on a public page is how families miss a deadline.