About ClearLegacy

Our mission

Most adults in the UK don't have a will. The Office for National Statistics consistently reports that around 60% of UK adults die intestate — not because they don't want a will, but because writing one feels expensive, slow and intimidating. ClearLegacy exists to remove all three barriers.

We've built a fully automated will-writing service that produces a legally valid will under the Wills Act 1837 in twenty minutes of questionnaire and delivers it within 24 hours. Every will is reviewed by a qualified estate planner before it leaves us. The price is fixed: £69 for a single will, £99 for a pair of mirror wills.

What ClearLegacy is

• UK-focused. Wills are drafted to the Wills Act 1837, the statute governing wills in England and Wales. Customers in Scotland or Northern Ireland should use a service local to those jurisdictions.
• Fully automated. No phone calls, no appointments, no offices. You answer an online questionnaire; our system drafts the will; a qualified reviewer checks it.
• Fixed price. £69 single, £99 mirror. No subscriptions. No upsells. One free amendment in the first 12 months.
• Fast. Most wills are emailed back within 24 hours of payment and questionnaire completion.
• Reviewed. Every draft is checked by a qualified estate planner. We don't release machine-output without human review.

What ClearLegacy is not

• We are not a solicitors' firm. Will-writing is not a reserved legal activity in England and Wales, so it does not require SRA regulation — but we don't pretend otherwise.
• We do not provide face-to-face appointments or phone consultations as part of the standard service. The product is the will, not the meeting.
• We don't write wills for extremely complex estates — trusts requiring bespoke drafting, foreign property structures, or business succession schemes are better handled by a specialist solicitor. Our questionnaire flags these cases.
• We are not a DIY kit. A WHSmith kit is around £25 and is uncomplemented by professional review. We are an order of magnitude safer than a DIY kit and a fraction of the cost of a solicitor.

Company details

How we keep the price at £69

The honest answer is automation. A traditional will-writing service or solicitor spends most of their time on the call, the appointment, the office overhead, the partner's hourly rate. We've moved everything that can be automated — the data capture, the draft generation, the document assembly, the secure delivery — into software. What is left for the human is the bit that matters: the qualified review.

The result is that the cost of a will at ClearLegacy is roughly the cost of the reviewer's time, plus a small share of platform overhead. A solicitor charging £350 for the same will is not necessarily producing a better will — they are charging for the appointment, the office, and the partner's time.

Legal validity

A will's legal validity in England and Wales depends on three things: the testator (you) being over 18 and of sound mind; the will being signed in the presence of two independent witnesses; and the wording complying with the Wills Act 1837. None of those are price-dependent. A £69 will properly drafted and signed is legally indistinguishable from a £700 solicitor's will properly drafted and signed.

Trust and review

Every will goes to a qualified estate planner before release. The reviewer checks the residuary clause, the executor appointment, the substitution clauses, the guardianship clause (if any), and the property handling. We do not release a will that has not been reviewed.

Frequently asked questions