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Yes. Nothing in Ontario, British Columbia or Alberta law requires a will to be drafted by a lawyer. What makes a will valid is that it is in writing, signed by you, and witnessed according to your province's rules. A will made on EstateCanvas and signed correctly is as legally valid as one drafted in a law office. The full answer, with the statutes.

After you approve your will, not before. You answer the questions, we generate your complete will, you read every clause of it — and only then do we ask for payment. If it is not right, you have not spent anything. The price is $29, and $15 until October 31, 2026.

Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. Each has its own rules engine, its own document templates and its own signing instructions — we would rather serve three provinces properly than ten approximately. If you live elsewhere in Canada, Willful and Epilogue both cover more ground today, and we say so on our comparison pages.

Your province's intestacy rules decide who gets what, and they may not match what you would have wanted. In Ontario your married spouse takes the first $350,000 and a common-law partner inherits nothing automatically. In British Columbia a partner of two years counts as a spouse. In Alberta an adult interdependent partner has full spousal rights. The court also appoints your estate administrator rather than you naming an executor. What intestacy looks like in each province.

Sometimes, and we will tell you when. If you own a business or foreign property, want a trust, are in a blended family with competing claims, or plan to leave a spouse or adult child out of your will, see a lawyer — those are the cases where a questionnaire is the wrong tool. Our honest comparison of online wills and lawyers lists all of them.

Yes, free, as many times as you like. Sign in, change what needs changing, and download the new version. You then sign and witness the new will the same way, and it replaces the old one. Most wills go out of date because updating them costs money — that is a problem we would rather not have.

No — in Canada each person needs their own will. What couples usually want is a pair of mirror wills that reflect each other. You can each make one on EstateCanvas, and share a space so you can see both plans in one place.

Because a will on its own does not tell your executor where anything is. The estate record is where you keep the rest: your assets and what they are worth, your debts, scanned documents attached to the things they relate to, and the people involved with the role each one plays. You can share it read-only with your executor. How the estate record works.

Most people finish the questionnaire in about twenty minutes. It helps to know your executor, your beneficiaries and roughly what you own before you start — our will checklist lists everything you will be asked.

Two adults who are not beneficiaries and not the spouse of a beneficiary. The minimum age is 18 in Ontario and Alberta and 19 in British Columbia. A gift to someone who witnesses your will is generally void, which is the single most common way a homemade will goes wrong. Full witnessing rules by province.

It depends on your province. British Columbia permits fully electronic wills. Ontario permits remote witnessing over video if at least one witness is a Law Society of Ontario licensee, but the will itself is still signed on paper. Alberta does not permit electronic wills at all. The rules for each province.

The app is available in English and French, and documents can be generated in either. This marketing site is currently English only.

Somewhere safe, dry and findable — and tell your executor where that is. A home safe or a lawyer's vault both work. A safety deposit box can be awkward, because your executor may need probate to open it, which requires the will. More on storing your will.