U.S. Legal Wills
There are no other payments required to prepare your legal Will. You can have a legal Will in your hands for $39.95 USD with nothing else to pay, ever.
What other options are there?
If you wish, you can have your Will reviewed by one of our lawyers for $69.00 USD. Most people do not need this, and would not benefit from it, but if you have selected an option such as “None of the above. Let me describe in detail how to distribute my estate.”, then you may want to consider this.
Your Will must first be printed, and then signed in the presence of two witnesses. If you do not have access to a printer, we can print it for you and mail it out. The cost for this is $9.95 USD, but again, most people do not need this option.
We also offer other services like MyLifeLocker™, a Financial Power of Attorney, and a Living Will. They are not required, but they may be useful to you depending on your situation.
What about document storage?
We do not store physical documents, but we allow you to maintain an account with us if you want to update your document in the future.
The Will service costs $39.95 USD. With this payment, you are able to prepare your Will. It also gives you one year of unlimited updates to the document. You are able to print the document as often as you wish during that first year. You can download it as a PDF or Word file, but to make your document a legal Will, it must first be printed, and then signed in the presence of two witnesses. The online version is there for your convenience only.
If you choose not to maintain an account with us after the first year, your initial payment is all you will ever pay. We do not keep credit card details on file and cannot automatically charge beyond this initial payment.
If you wish, you can choose to store your documents online for longer than a year, which will make it easier to make updates in the future to reflect any changes in your personal or financial situation (rather than returning to a lawyer each time). This is of course optional, but it does make the process of maintaining your document more convenient. $11.95 USD will give you one additional year of updates, or you can purchase multiple years: 5 years at $29.95 USD, 10 years at $39.95 USD, 25 years at $79.95 USD ($3.20 USD per year).
Every time you make an update to your Will, it must first be printed, and then signed in the presence of two witnesses again. If you choose not to maintain an account with us, you will always have your printed, signed document. If you don’t need to make changes to that document, it will last you for the rest of your life, whether or not you have an account with us.
What happens if I don’t maintain an account, and then in a few years I need to update it?
If your account has not been touched in years, and it is inactive, we reserve the right to remove the account. You will receive an email notification that your account might be removed. However, in practice, we have never actually removed any accounts in our over 23 years of operation.
So, in all likelihood, you will be able to simply login to your account and pay $11.95 USD to reactivate it. This will give you one year of unlimited updates from the date of payment. (You will not have to pay for your inactive years.)