How to write your Will online
Making your Will online with A.D.E Wills means a proper conversation with a professional Will writer, by video, from wherever you are in the UK. There is no form to fill in on your own and no template to guess your way through. We ask the questions, explain your options and write your Will around what you tell us.
Step 1: Book your appointment
Fill in the form on our website or give us a call, and we’ll find a time that suits you. You’ll receive a confirmation email with your appointment details and our Will Writing Checklist. The checklist is a short worksheet to fill in beforehand, so the conversation is easier and nothing gets forgotten.
Your appointment takes place over Microsoft Teams: we email you a link, you click it, and it opens in your browser. Prefer Zoom, Google Meet or WhatsApp video? Just say when you book. If video isn’t practical, we can do your appointment by telephone instead.
Step 2: Your appointment
We’ll talk through each part of your Will with you:
- About you: your name, address and family, and why you’re making a Will now.
- Your capacity: to make a valid Will, you need to understand what you’re doing. If there is any doubt, for example because of illness or memory problems, we’ll talk it through with you first. A medical opinion recorded at the time can provide helpful evidence.
- Your estate: what you own, including property, savings and belongings. This lets us consider whether Inheritance Tax is relevant and whether a trust, such as a life interest or discretionary trust, would help. Some assets, such as jointly owned property or pensions, may pass outside your Will, and we’ll explain which.
- Your executors: the people you trust to carry out your wishes.
- Guardians: if you have children under 18, who you would want to look after them.
- Your pets: if you have any, who will care for them.
- Specific gifts: sums of money, property or items you’d like to leave to a friend, loved one or charity.
- Your residuary estate: what is left after gifts, tax, funeral and administration costs, and who receives it. We’ll also make sure you name replacement beneficiaries, so a gift doesn’t fail if someone dies before you.
- Funeral wishes: if you’d like to record them in your Will.
Anything you’re unsure about, we’ll explain in plain English.
Step 3: Approve your draft
We prepare your draft Will and send it to you with a personalised Will booklet explaining what each part means. Anything you’d like changed, just say. We keep going until you’re happy, at no extra cost.
Step 4: Sign your Will
We print your Will and post it to your door, along with your personalised Will booklet and Signing Guide. You sign it in front of two independent witnesses, and the Signing Guide walks you through exactly how. That signature is what makes it legally binding.
What it costs
Online Wills start from £245 for a single Will, at a fixed fee agreed before any work begins.
Get started
Book a free 15-minute call or request a call back, and we’ll take it from there.
