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Who we are, and how we check our facts
This site gives people statutory information at a moment when they are least able to double-check it. That places an obligation on us to be clear about where the facts come from and how far they can be trusted.
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What this is
Heirs Legacy is a Pennsylvania business working with families after a death, across 6 counties in and around the Lehigh Valley. We help in four ways: explaining what Pennsylvania requires, buying inherited property directly as the purchaser, researching records to document who the heirs of an estate appear to be, and searching for unclaimed property.
We are not a law firm and we do not practise law. Where a matter needs an attorney, we say so and refer it out. That happens often, and it costs you nothing to find out. Our state disclosures set out precisely what we do and do not hold.
We are paid by the families and fiduciaries we work for, and what each service costs is set out on our pricing page. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and no page here carries advertising or an affiliate link.
Editorial standards
Where the facts come from
Four rules govern everything published here. They exist because a wrong threshold sends a grieving family into the wrong court procedure.
Statute first, never a summary
Every rate, threshold and deadline comes from the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, the Orphans’ Court rules, or the Department of Revenue’s own published guidance. We do not source facts from other advice sites, because that is how one site’s mistake becomes twenty sites’ mistake.
County fees from the county
Filing fees come from each county’s own published fee schedule, not from a directory. We record the date each schedule took effect and show it next to the figure, because five of our six counties changed their schedules between October 2025 and January 2026.
Dated on the page, not in a changelog
Any page carrying a statutory figure shows when it was last checked and against which source, in the page itself. A number without a date is a number you cannot rely on.
When we cannot confirm it, we say so
Northampton County’s published fee schedule is dated January 2021 and still lists a statewide fee that changed afterwards. Rather than repeat a figure we cannot stand behind, that page says the fee is not confirmed and tells you to call the office. We would rather be visibly incomplete than quietly wrong.
How often it is re-checked
County fee schedules and statutory thresholds are re-verified quarterly, and immediately whenever we learn a figure has moved. Pennsylvania changed two thresholds in 2026 alone, through Act 50 of 2025, and several counties reissued their fee schedules within three months of each other. Information like this goes stale quietly, which is why every page carrying a figure shows its own check date rather than relying on a site-wide claim.
If you find something wrong
Tell us. We would rather correct a page than defend it, and a correction that comes from a reader is worth more than one we find ourselves. Get in touch, point at the page, and say what looks off. If you are right we will fix it and update the check date. If we cannot confirm your correction we will tell you that too, rather than quietly leaving it.
Being straight with you
What we do not claim
It is easy to tell what a business asserts. It is more useful to know what it has deliberately left out.
We do not claim to be lawyers, accountants or licensed fiduciaries, because we are none of those things.
We do not publish testimonials, client quotes or ratings. Not because we have none to show, but because we hold no substantiation file for any, and publishing one without that is a deceptive practice.
We do not publish client numbers, success rates or years in business anywhere on this site, because we have not established any of them.
We do not tell you how long probate takes. No Pennsylvania court publishes that figure, so any range would be invented.
Start with a conversation, not a contract
Tell us who died, which county they lived in, and what is worrying you most. If the answer is that you need a probate attorney rather than us, we will say so.
Free, and there is no obligation afterwards.