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Using BuildaWill


Understanding what's ahead:

Creating your Will has never been so easy to do!

Legal information and forms in BuildaWill were last revised: Oct. 26, 2002

What it costs:

At a value-oriented $19.95, a BuildaWill Will takes care of all your needs!
BuildaWill allows you to complete a customized, valid, legally-binding Will in the privacy of your home. Why waste time and expense finding a law firm and then wondering if you got your money's worth?

BuildaWill walks you through simple forms in an easy to use environment, with instant help, outstanding support, and useful will tips right where you need them.

To allow you to get comfortable with us, we'll let you try out our program right up until you're ready to finalize your will. Just Click here to start!

Will-Vault™:

Your life is constantly changing. So should your will. For an additional $9.95, you can make unlimited changes to your will! BuildaWill will store your information online on our secure server. Now you'll will be ready to update your will when you sell that house and buy a Winnebago! Already bought your will? You can still add Will-Vault anytime before your account expires! Enable Will-Vault™!

What you get:

  1. A Custom Will- The result of hundreds of possible combinations. This creates a Will perfectly matched to your own personal situation.
  2. A Will that, upon being properly signed and witnessed, is valid and legally binding in any American state except Louisiana;
  3. A "Care and maintenance of your Will" an included step by step guide to follow once you have printed your Will. It explains the process of signing, storing and distributing your Will and contains useful tips;
  4. A secure on-line file which can be edited unlimited times at your convenience if you add our Will-Vault service, or if you are not comfortable with that, your file is completely destroyed after 30 days.
  5. Peace of mind knowing your life is in order and your family, pets and affairs are taken care of.

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What's included in the Will's text:

The BuildaWill program allows you to create a custom will to fit your specific needs with customized clauses for the following items:

  1. Family members (name and address of your immediate family are put in will)
  2. Executors (two methods of choosing executors are available)
  3. Beneficiaries (name as many people or organizations to leave to as you wish)
  4. Charitable Organizations (complete with Tax ID fields)
  5. Specific gifts (Leave specific gifts to your family, friends or organizations)
  6. Residuary gifts (three convenient methods of leaving residue)
  7. Survivorship (Three choices on how to handle gifts that can't be collected)
  8. Child's Guardian (Name the person whom you wish to look after your children)
  9. Trustee (three methods of selecting a trustee to oversee your child's trust)
  10. Child's Trust Fund (specify what age your children are when they receive trusts)
  11. Fiduciary Powers
  12. Definitions
  13. Execution and Attestations
  14. Self-Proving affidavit (state specific)

REMEMBER- No other will generation website offers the personal control, feature depth and customizable options that we do!
See for yourself how easy it is to use!

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What sets BuildaWill apart from competitors:

The strongest performer among online Will Software programs!
Built as an industrial strength web application, BuildaWill's power lies in its flexibility in writing wills to suit not just a few options you might want to apply, but a wealth of choices in Executors, Gifts, Residue, Children's Trusts and Guardianships.

BuildaWill's interface is clean, inviting and informative!

NEW!- Intelligent Will Assistant
As you customize your will, the application will analyze your choices and ensure that everything works together. You don't have to research every option yourself, the application will know when you need to make choices and present them to you along with simple explanations. The Assistant also keeps a drop down menu of all your dependants and beneficiaries for easy reference as you leave gifts. No typing in the same names or addresses twice or three times like other programs!

We educate our users intensively.
This isn't just a bunch of blind "fill in the blanks" forms resulting in a no-frills-will. BuildaWill is a dynamic resource that will tell you why you are doing things and help you understand what you need to do in friendly and straighforward manner. When you're done using BuildaWill, you will have obtained more than just a will, you will have an understanding of what you just did and how to prepare yourself for the future.

Superior Support
while at the same time, our support has been used so sparingly, that we are able to offer you LIVE help, 18 hours a day. No automated responses or canned answers! A real live person will respond to you!

Quality Program!
Our Will generation engine has generated tens of thousands of wills without a problem, with minimal support requests. This tells us that not only we built our interface the right way, the application works as advertised. Our in-house test account has been in use for over a year, subjected to many revisions, demonstrations, and changes and still has not even a hint of corruption present. That's quality, and that's what you need when you write such an important document.

Find out for yourself how easy it is to use, before you pay.

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Unsolicited Testimonials

Over 55,000 Wills in 7 months!
And NO unsatisfied customers! Here's a sample of what people are saying...

  • The BuildaWill product is great, however, it's the support I got from
    their help desk when my browser malfunctioned that really impressed me.
    I wrote an email to their support group, expecting to wait two or three
    days for a reply. Gordon from Tech Support was back to me within a half
    hour (at 6:30 in the evening) with "non-techie" verbiage that fixed my
    problem immediately. I run a 2,000 person customer service organization
    so I'm hard to impress when it comes to good service. BuildaWill
    impressed me.

    M.S.

  • "I just wanted to say thank you. It has been disturbing both me and my husband that we did not have a will. I always thought it would be so expensive or confusing. I now can sleep better at night knowing that everything will be handled just the way I want it to be if I should pass on. I could not believe how simple your company made it for me. You put the descriptions in a way that anyone could understand. Thank you again."
    Karen S.
  • "Congratulation on providing a wonderful service to folks at a great price!"
    M. Peet
  • "My boyfriend is terminally ill with liver problems and we've been trying to develop a will. I'm so glad I found your site! My boyfriend and I have both prepared wills now."
    Jennifer
  • "Thanks for this great online service!"
    C.Gray
  • "I would like to thank you for the web site, it is very helpful."
    Janel
  • "This is a really great service. My daughter is going into the hospital for some major surgery, and we do not have time to visit a lawyer to get one made."
    Gnanni K.
  • "Hi, I love your site, I think it's so wonderful that people can go there and create a legal will..."
    D. Mohanco
  • "I recently found your site and was very impressed with how easy it was to do"
    B.B.
  • "Thanks for providing this wonderful service"
    Rick
  • "Just wanted to say thank you for a wonderful site, it was of great help to me. I will recommend it to others. Thanks again."
    Jenn W.

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What you need to do to use BuildaWill:

Fill in the Blanks
You may review the blank forms before, as you begin, or while you draft your Will. Using BuildaWill™, you enter the information required by the forms which consist of your name, names of your spouse and children, executor, beneficiary, gifts, guardians, etc.

After you fill out all of your information and preview your entries to ensure their accuracy, then and only then will you be asked to pay for the Will, which you can download and print. All you need to do at this point is sign it to make it valid! You can review it in private and then return to BuildaWill.com if you need to make any changes.

You're in Control!
You are always in control of the process. You make all of the decisions. BuildaWill, together with the information contained in the Estate Planning guide, is a highly effective tool to help you organize and enter information, however, they cannot advise you on what is best for your circumstances. If you feel you need such advice, you should consult with an attorney. That suggestion will be repeated as you go about the process of creating your own Will.

*Remember- the will is not valid until you sign it. You can go through BuildaWill and see how it works without nullifying your current Will.

If you are ready to begin your Will, just click the button above!


Legal information is not legal advice and information alone may not meet your specific needs or questions. Use of such information and the BuildaWill™ application is subject to the Terms of Use and is not a substitute for obtaining the advice of an attorney authorized to practice law in your jurisdiction. The information on this website and use of the BuildaWill™ application are provided "as-is." BuildaWill.com is a legal information website. Copyright 2002, BuildaWill.com, ® Legal information applies to all states of the United States except Louisiana.

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