A simple, valid will built from the official forms approved by the Supreme Court of Texas in Misc. Dkt. No. 23-9037 — at no cost, in about 15 minutes.
Tell us about yourself, your family, and what you want to leave behind. The form takes about 15 minutes.
Your answers fill in the official Texas Supreme Court will form — the same legal language a Texas court will accept.
Print your will, gather two adult witnesses and a notary, and follow the included signing instructions to make it valid.
Properly formatted with the exact legal language approved by the Texas Supreme Court. Ready to print.
Step-by-step instructions for the signing ceremony — what witnesses must do, what the notary must do, in plain English (or Spanish).
A separate page for your notary public with the exact instructions they need to make your will self-proved.
Where to keep your original will, who to tell, and how to make sure your wishes are actually followed when the time comes.
This free will is designed for simple estates. If any of the following apply to you, a basic form will is probably not enough:
If any of those apply, Law Nerd LLC offers flat-fee estate consultations.
Contact Law Nerd LLC →Yes, completely free. No subscription, no upsell to download, no hidden fee. Law Nerd LLC offers this as a public service. We hope that if you ever need an attorney for something more complex — an appeal, a complicated probate, a contested estate — you'll think of us. That's it.
Yes, when properly signed. The will language is taken directly from the form approved by the Supreme Court of Texas in Misc. Dkt. No. 23-9037. To be valid, you must sign it in front of two disinterested adult witnesses (people who are not receiving anything in your will), and we strongly recommend you also have it notarized so it is "self-proved" and easier to admit to probate. Full instructions are included with your download.
For a simple estate, no — the Texas Supreme Court approved these forms specifically so that people without lawyers can have valid wills. But for the situations listed above (blended family, special needs, business interests, large estates), an attorney is well worth the cost. Hiring an attorney to fix a poorly-drafted will after death costs your family far more than getting it done right while you're alive.
Your privacy is our priority. The PDF of your will is generated entirely in your browser and is never uploaded to any server — we never receive, store, or have access to a copy of your finished will document. We do retain a brief text summary of the names and choices you entered, for two reasons: (1) so we can offer relevant follow-up resources, and (2) as a contemporaneous record — in the event your will is ever contested in probate court, this record can serve as evidence that you personally entered these specific instructions on this specific date, helping defend against allegations that the document was fabricated. We never sell, share, or disclose your information to any third party.
You can come back any time and create a new will. To change your will, you must create a new one and destroy the old one — you cannot just cross things out or write changes on a signed will. The new will should explicitly say that it revokes all prior wills (this form already includes that language).
Sí. Use el botón EN / ES en la parte superior para cambiar todo el sitio — incluyendo el formulario y el testamento generado — al español. El testamento utiliza el formulario bilingüe oficial aprobado por la Corte Suprema de Texas.
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