DIY Legal › Wills & Estates · Will and powers of attorney
Your will and powers of attorney, prepared from your own answers.
$299.00 + HST · about 33 minutes to answer · pay at the end
Short questions in plain language; your will, your continuing power of attorney for property and your power of attorney for personal care are drafted from the firm's own precedents, with a guide to signing them properly. A spouse's matching set comes from the same answers.
It is for you if: Your estate is straightforward: a spouse, children or other people you want to provide for, an executor you trust, and no business or property abroad that needs its own plan.
✓ Ten quick questions first: no account until you know it fits✓ The firm's own precedents, brought up to date✓ Sign with your own witnesses, or by video with our lawyer✓ Ontario lawyers a click away
Three ways to do it
Do it yourself
$299.00 + HST
- Your will and both powers of attorney, from the firm's precedents
- The signing guide and the storage record
- Checks of your answers, with a clear flag when a lawyer should look
With a lawyer's review
$498.00 + HST ($299.00 + $199.00)
- Everything in Do it yourself
- One of our lawyers reads your answers and your documents before you sign
- Written notes on anything to change
Sign by video with our lawyer
$548.00 + HST ($299.00 + $249.00)
- Everything in the review
- A video appointment: our lawyer and a witness watch you sign, the affidavit of execution is sworn the same day
- No witnesses to find; the signed original is checked
Prices before HST. A spouse's matching set is part of the same package. The review and the video signing are added on the checkout page after you pay for the package. Prefer to meet in person? Ask for a call and we do it the ordinary way.
What you get, what you will need, and how it works
What you get
- Your Last Will and Testament, with the clauses that fit your answers
- Your Continuing Power of Attorney for Property
- Your Power of Attorney for Personal Care
- A signing guide and a storage record
- Checks of your answers for the things a lawyer looks for, with a clear flag when a lawyer should look at it
$299.00 + HST = $337.87
Paid once, at the end, when your documents are ready. No court or government fee.
What you will need
- Your full legal name and address as on your identification
- The names, relationships and cities of your executor, your attorneys and the people you provide for
- Children's names and dates of birth
- A rough picture of what you own
- Two adult witnesses on the day you sign (or our video signing)
Not included
- Legal advice on your estate plan, tax or family law claims
- A second will for a business, a trust or property outside Canada
- Witnessing (available as a video signing appointment)
How it works
- Can you do this yourself? ~3 minTen quick questions. They tell you whether a will you prepare yourself is the right route, before you create an account.
- About you ~4 minYour details exactly as they appear on your identification; the documents use them.
- Your family ~3 minChildren of any age, including stepchildren you treat as your own, and anyone who depends on you.
- Your executor and a guardian ~4 minThe executor carries out your will. A guardian raises a child under 18; the executor holds the money.
- Who gets what ~6 minParticular things first, then everything else (the residue) by a simple plan.
- Your attorneys ~5 minThe people who act for you while you are alive if you cannot: one for money and property, one for health and personal care.
- Business, property abroad and wishes ~3 minA few last things the documents need to know.
- Preview and checkout ~5 minRead your will and powers of attorney over. When they are right, pay and download them with the signing guide.
If anything in your answers needs a lawyer, the service stops there and tells you why. You can ask for one of our lawyers at any point.