GoodTrust
GoodTrust offers an all-in-one estate-planning platform that enables users to create a comprehensive estate plan, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, funeral directives, and pet directives, through a guided, fill-in-the-blank experience. The platform supports estate plans that are valid in all 50 U.S. states and allows every family member to build their own plan at no additional cost. A key feature is the Digital Vault, which securely stores your estate-plan documents, details of online accounts, and legacy instructions, giving you full control over access and sharing. The system is designed for simplicity: users answer basic questions about themselves and their families, print and sign their documents with two witnesses, and upload the signed forms to their Digital Vault. GoodTrust emphasizes that today’s users can complete the process in approximately 20 minutes, with the ability to revisit and update their plan at any time.
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Arken
Arken Legal Software is a cloud-based estate-planning platform designed to digitize and streamline the document-drafting process for wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and related documents. It uses an intuitive questionnaire to capture client data and immediately constructs consistent, branded output, including full commentary for clarity; built-in alerts help prevent errors, and dual-screen live drafting allows users to review and adapt documents in real time. Its product suite supports a wide range of instruments such as simple and complex wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs), severance of joint tenancy, expressions of wishes, advance decisions, and general powers of attorney, all generated in minutes with minimal manual re-keying. It centralizes client information, enforces precedent and branding standards, and integrates an “Intestacy Lead Generator” tool that educates clients on what happens if they die without a will, thereby helping generate new business.
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Bancroft
Bancroft is a cloud-based estate-planning platform for financial advisors, RIAs, and firms that coordinate estate-document preparation and follow-through with client households. Advisors invite clients to a branded portal, where each document has a guided questionnaire and shared household details can prefill relevant answers. The platform generates state-specific wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney, HIPAA authorizations, and supporting documents, and gives advisors a dashboard for tracking document progress and outstanding tasks. Trust-funding workflows organize retitling, beneficiary, and deed tasks, with draft letters for advisor review. Other tools include an encrypted Digital Safe for household records, trust updates, and blended-family views showing outcomes under either spouse’s order of death. Bancroft is software, not a law firm; individual legal advice is outside the platform.
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Quicken WillMaker
Quicken WillMaker & Trust is a comprehensive, DIY estate‑planning software that enables individuals and families to create legally binding wills, living trusts (individual or shared), durable powers of attorney, health‑care directives, transfer‑on‑death deeds, final arrangements letters, and caregiver/survivor guides. It features an intuitive, step‑by‑step interview format with embedded legal guidance, ensuring documents reflect the laws in your state. Users can choose between a desktop version or an online portal, and can update or revise plans at any time. A built‑in legal manual and state‑specific attorney-edited documents provide clarity and reassurance. It covers more than 35 essential estate planning forms, including promissory notes, authority delegations, and personal finance documents, and facilitates probate avoidance.
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