A complete Just in Case file for you and your family
Your Will is important, but it can't contain everything. This guided organiser records the doctors, accounts, super, insurance and wishes your family will need, all in one place and found in minutes.
Paperback and Kindle. Australian, US and UK editions.
Why this book exists
A fall at home. An ambulance. Then the questions start:
Who is Mum's GP?
What medication is she on?
Where is the insurance?
What is the phone passcode?
"It's all in the Will." Most families assume so. But a Will isn't read until after death, and it doesn't hold the day-to-day information needed when someone is hospitalised, seriously ill or unable to speak for themselves.
Kay's story
When Kay's sister had a stroke and couldn't communicate, sorting out her affairs uncovered three separate super accounts, one of them held with a bank. Kay wrote this book, with her daughter Xanthe, so other families aren't left searching.
What's inside
A practical, fill-in-the-blanks organiser. Fill it in once, update it as required, and your family or trusted person can find what they need in minutes. It is useful after a death, and also if someone becomes seriously ill, is hospitalised, loses capacity or is temporarily unable to manage their own affairs.
It does not replace a Will, Enduring Power of Attorney or professional advice. It complements them. Leaving Answers, Not Questions is a record-keeping organiser, not legal, financial or medical advice. Readers are directed to a qualified lawyer for legal matters and to their professional adviser for financial decisions.
Editions
Covers Centrelink, superannuation, Medicare, the ATO and Enduring Power of Attorney, in language and systems Australians recognise.
Available on AmazonWritten for readers in the United States, using the terms, systems and documents Americans know. Paperback and Kindle.
Available on AmazonWritten for readers in the United Kingdom, using the terms, systems and documents people in the UK know. Paperback and Kindle.
Available on AmazonFor professional partners
A Will names executors and distributes assets. This guided organiser captures the day-to-day information legal documents leave behind. It sits alongside your advice, not in place of it, and every chapter points readers back to qualified lawyers, advisers and accountants.
All prices are in Australian dollars (AUD) and include GST. Per copy, delivered to one address.
Starter
25+ copiesYour logo sticker on every book
Boutique practices and independent advisers.
Partner
100+ copiesYour logo sticker on every book
Mid-sized firms, retirement communities and seminar programs.
Enterprise
500+ copiesYour logo printed on the cover
Large firms, banks, funds, aged care groups and wellness programs.
Premium hardcover
Gift editionA hardcover for your most valued clients
Quoted to suit your quantity and branding.
Custom cover printing and the hardcover edition are quoted on request, with lead times to suit. Add a workshop: Kay presents "Being Prepared for the Unexpected" for client seminars, resident and family information sessions, staff lunch-and-learns and conferences. Session fee on request.
Try it first
Tell us your firm, your quantity and your branding preference, and we'll come back to you.
Email usFree downloads for your reception and meetings:
Download the client handout (PDF, 175 KB)
Download the client information cards (PDF, 670 KB)
About the author
Kay is an Australian author based in Brisbane who believes the best stories come from living many lives. Before writing, she owned a successful florist business and worked on major engineering and resource projects across Australia, Singapore, Vietnam and New Caledonia.
She is the author of The Bennett Files mystery series, Florist Confidential and practical non-fiction drawing on document control, health and personal experience. She wrote Leaving Answers, Not Questions with her daughter, Xanthe Shotton, after her own family's experience of sorting out a loved one's affairs.
Speaking and workshops: Kay speaks to community groups and professional firms about being prepared for the unexpected, through client seminars, staff lunch-and-learns and industry conferences.
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