After Your Spouse Dies: A Practical Navigation Workbook for the First 90 Days

When your spouse dies, practical responsibilities arrive at a time when concentrating, remembering details, and making decisions may be difficult. You do not have to work through everything at once.

This workbook from Tica Learning Systems provides a clear way to organize information, prepare for important conversations, and identify what needs attention next. Created for widows, it can be used independently or with a trusted family member, friend, or support professional.

The workbook follows three stages—the first seven days, days eight through thirty, and days thirty-one through ninety—so you can begin where you are and work at your own pace.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Practical checklists for notifications, essential household expenses, document collection, and follow-up.
• Questions to ask about survivor benefits, insurance, banking, retirement accounts, and estate responsibilities.
• Meeting preparation pages for conversations with attorneys, tax professionals, financial professionals, and employer benefits representatives.
• Worksheets to organize contacts, documents, accounts, expenses, benefits, and claims.
• Five call scripts and three written request templates.
• Sensitive guidance on clothing and personal belongings, including donation resources, help with sorting, and considerations for estate sales.
• State-specific questions to discuss with a qualified professional.

There is no prescribed timetable for letting go of personal belongings. The workbook gives you room to record decisions, ask for help, and move at a pace that respects your circumstances.

What you receive:

A 35-page downloadable, fillable PDF workbook that can be completed digitally or printed for handwritten use. No physical product is shipped.

Organizational licensing:

Hospices, healthcare organizations, community centers, faith communities, and other organizations supporting widows can contact Tica Learning Systems about an organizational license for use with the people they serve. Copying, distribution, and program-use permissions are governed by the applicable license terms.

This workbook is an educational and organizational resource. It does not replace individualized legal, tax, financial, medical, or mental-health advice.