Getting Started

Foreigners can be witnesses; you will need to enter their foreign ID so that the courts can easily contact them.

No, unfortunately. Our will-writing service is an automated one. It only caters to a select few situations and pre-set inheritance options. These are generally the more common scenarios and/or choices for most people. For complex wills, we can refer you to one of our trusted partners who specialises in this aspect for which they charge a reasonable fee for their professional service.

Your latest will revokes any previous wills. The date of a will is therefore very important. The later will, shall in the absence of other factors, usually prevails if it had a statement revoking all former wills.

The following assets cannot be distributed via a will:

1. CPF balances will be distributed according to your CPF Nomination if you have made one. If you do not make a CPF nomination, your money will be paid to the Public Trustee in Singapore, who will pay it out in accordance with the Intestate Succession Act. Read more on the CPF website and download the form here.
2. Proceeds of insurance policies will go to the beneficiaries nominated in the insurance policies. If you do not make a nomination, the proceeds will form part of your estate to be distributed according to your will or if no will is done, it will be distributed in accordance with the Intestate Succession Act.
3. Property under Joint Tenancy – the property will be passed over to the survivor joint tenant. For example, if you own a property as joint tenants with your spouse, in the event that you pass on, your spouse will inherit the property wholly. For real-estate properties that are held as joint tenants, these properties cannot be passed on through the operation of a will.
4. Generally-speaking, the assets in joint-bank accounts and joint-stock brokerage accounts would also be payable to the surviving account holder. However, due to different clauses with regards to these accounts, in some cases, these assets may form part of the estate to be distributed according to your will or the Intestate Succession Act.

The property to be disposed of in the estate in the will is the property which exists at the time of death and not the property at the date when you execute your will. Our online will currently treats all your estate (which includes all your insurance payouts and assets in banks) as a whole and distributes it among your beneficiaries in your specified portions. There are coming plans to enhance our online will further such as the option to specify certain assets e.g. bank accounts for segregated distribution. Once it is ready, users will be informed.

Your will only takes effect upon death; only then will the distributions to a beneficiary take place.

All you have to do is print it out and sign off at the end of the Will and at the bottom of every page and have your witnesses sign the same as well. Beneficiaries under the will and their spouses are prohibited from signing as witnesses. Remember, you must ensure that all signatures are witnessed in person by all parties (ie your two witnesses and yourself must all sign in the presence of one another at one sitting). Date the will immediately thereafter. You will then have a valid will!

All you have to do is go through a simple step-by-step process and answer our questions. We will do the magic!