See a sample package
Everything on this page comes from a real package our software built — for a practice estate we use in testing. The Bishop family below is invented: made-up people, a made-up bank, a made-up address. Your package is built the same way, from your answers.
The Bishops are one of 15 practice families we use to test our software. When we test, all 15 go through the whole interview, start to finish. Thirteen get complete court packages built — including one estate at exactly $150,000. Two are designed to be turned away, and we check that they are.
SAMPLE — practice estate, not real people
Lines from the filled application (Form 74.1A)
Applicant: Susan Marie Bishop, 18 Cedarbrook Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
The person who died: Eleanor Grace Bishop, Toronto, Ontario
Assets listed, one by one:
Chequing account, Maple Leaf Credit Union, Toronto branch
Savings account, Maple Leaf Credit Union, Toronto branch
Total value sworn on the form: $85,300.00
"The application will be filed at the court location at Toronto because that is the county or district in which the deceased had their last residence…"
In your download, these lines sit inside the official court Word file itself, in the court's own layout — because courts expect their own forms, and that is exactly what you file. Form 74.1A is the court's own file: see it on the court's website.
SAMPLE — practice estate, not real people
The tax worksheet — with the math shown
The estate is worth $85,300.00.
The first $50,000 is free: $0.
That leaves $35,300.00.
We round up to the next full $1,000 — the court counts a part of a $1,000 as a whole one. That makes 36 thousands.
36 × $15 = $540.00.
Tax to pay when you file: $540.00
The worksheet also tells you how to pay it and who to make the cheque to. Want your own number now? The free calculator uses the same math.
SAMPLE — practice estate, not real people
The filing checklist — made for your courthouse
☐ Form 74.1A — the application. Sign it in front of a commissioner (swear or affirm it). Do not sign it alone at home.
☐ Form 74.1C — the draft certificate. Do not sign it. The court signs this one.
☐ The original will. The court needs the real signed will — not a photocopy. Keep it flat and unstapled from anything new.
☐ Send copies first — then wait 30 days. The tracking sheet shows how to count it.
Golden rule: every name and date must match your documents exactly. Before you sign anything, put the will and the death certificate beside these forms and compare, letter by letter.
The real checklist names your courthouse and its filing address — this practice estate files in Toronto, so its sheet says Toronto.
What the download folder holds
START-HERE.txt
court-forms/ — the official court forms, filled in (Word files, as the court publishes them)
your-guide/ — your checklist, tax worksheet, sending-copies tracking sheet, and filing steps — each as a web page and a PDF
Small estates get the small-estate forms (74.1A, 74.1B, 74.1C); standard estates get theirs (74A, 74B, 74C). If your answers need extra papers — a witness's sworn page, a stepping-aside form, a charity notice — they are built and included too.
SAMPLE — practice estate, not real people
Want to hold it in your hands? Download the whole sample.
This is the complete Bishop practice package — the real filled court forms and guides, exactly as our software built them. Every document is stamped SAMPLE — not for filing, because the Bishops are invented. Open it on your phone or computer and see what you would be buying. A real package also includes PDF copies of the guides.
Download the sample package (free, no email)About 10 minutes in, you'll know if your estate fits. If it's a kind we don't handle — where a lawyer is the right help — we say so plainly, and you pay nothing.