About WillPicks

Dad died at the kitchen table on a Sunday morning in October 2023. No warning, no plan, no will anyone could find. Three weeks later a handwritten page turned up in a manila folder behind his 2019 tax returns. Indiana doesn't recognize holographic wills, so that piece of paper was worth exactly nothing in probate court.

Reference librarian at a suburban Indianapolis branch, 47. What I do for a living is find information for people who don't know where to look. After that October, I spent two and a half years doing it for my own family: rebuilding mom's filing cabinet, drafting a real will for myself, and walking my brother through it when he finally admitted he had nothing either. Not a lawyer. Not a paralegal. No estate-planning background beyond what I taught myself and what three different software platforms walked me through.

What this site covers: online will makers, legal form libraries, and DIY tax software. The tools that let someone sit down on a weeknight with a cup of coffee and get something real printed and signed. Not complex trust setups. Not business formations. Not anything with a fact pattern that needs a licensed attorney first.

Everything here is tested in Indiana: two witnesses required, no notary needed for basic will validity, holographic wills not recognized. California, New York, Texas, and Louisiana all have different requirements. I flag those differences when I know them, but I won't pretend I've tested anything outside my ZIP code.

Some links on this site pay me a referral fee when you sign up through them. Your price stays the same either way. The referral income goes toward buying the next platform to test, which is the only reason these comparisons stay current.

Nothing here is legal or tax advice. It is one librarian's account of what she did with specific software in Indiana. Estates with real complexity, blended families, or assets that would make a probate fight worth having should have an attorney in the room before anything gets signed.