Personal Wills in Ontario
Speak to a lawyer to draft your Will from the comfort of your home. We bring legal expertise to you in the most convenient and affordable way.

Speak to a lawyer to draft your Will from the comfort of your home. We bring legal expertise to you in the most convenient and affordable way.
Adopt the modernized smart and simple way to draft your Will. The legally binding document ensures your family, pets, assets, and final arrangements are taken care of exactly as you like. At Axess Law, we offer a number of affordable options to draft a Will with the choice of in-office or online appointments. Let our lawyers guide you every step of the way.An estate plan and personal Will inform your loved ones where your assets are and what your final wishes were. You can preplan and prepay funeral expenses, arrange life and mortgage insurance to support loved ones, and appoint guardians for minors or dependants of any age. Axess Law’s Wills and estates lawyers help you make a plan for life.
Right now, before you put it off, is the best time to:
Review Insurance Policies
Check whether you have coverage for long-term care if you become feeble or disabled, to protect minors or dependants when you’re gone, or replace family income while your Wills are being probated. Life events like having or adopting children or starting a business may make your financial plans out of date. Estate planning prompts you to review financial assets you plan to leave next of kin.
Name Beneficiaries for Joint or Investment Accounts
Naming designates for bank accounts and investments let assets pass directly to benefactors without waiting for probate court. It’s important you double-check employee pension plans to ensure beneficiary lists are current. If you are separated, divorced, remarried, or widowed, your information may be out of date.
Approach Potential Estate Administrators
Any mentally capable adult can be your estate administrator or executor, but not everyone may want to. Select a trustworthy, reliable, and financially competent administrator by asking those you know if they would be willing to represent you.
Click on ‘Get Started’ button to submit a request to meet with the Lawyer. Our customer care team will reach out to you within minutes to book your appointment.
On the day of your appointment, our lawyer will verify your identification and walk you through the intake process where they confirm your contact information.
Our lawyer will ask you a series of questions regarding your executor, beneficiaries, and make a note of your wishes before drafting a Will accordingly.
Our lawyer will cross-check each page of the Will with you and if you are happy with the draft, the Will is signed and executed by the lawyer on the same day.
Axess Law will ask you for two pieces of ID. Proving your identity is obligatory to prevent fraud. You may use either two pieces of primary ID or one primary and one secondary ID. These include:
When you die, your estate trustees, executors or personal representatives, as they are called:
Last Wills and testaments are precious documents. If you’ve been charged with finding a Will, ask loved ones, family or close friends where to look. Many Will writers make multiple Wills in their lifetime and their estate trustee or next-of-kin often know where they are.
Will Check or Storage Services
Many Ontario Wills and estates lawyers use a central Will Check service or store Wills for their clients. They often know where a deceased client kept their Will. Start your search with the law firm where the Will was drafted.
Going to Court to Get Wills
Next-of-kin or estate trustees can be taken to court for withholding a Will. As long as you appear to have a financial interest in the estate, you can ask a civil court judge to order anyone who has a copy (real or not) to give it to you.
Wills in Land Records
Real estate owners may deposit Wills in Ontario land registry offices when land is their only asset. Check with the local land registry where they lived.
Finally, if you know there is a Will, but you just can’t find it, you can apply to an Ontario court for a certificate of appointment as estate trustee without a Will.
Axess Law shows you how to create single or multiple personal Wills to keep your assets and family safe.
List assets for your Will
Organize your debts
Make a contact list for your estate trustee
Name benefactors and charities
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Axess Law shows you how to create single or multiple personal Wills to keep your assets and family safe.
1. List Assets for Your Will
2. Organize Your Debts
Your estate trustee will notify creditors and pay debts after you die. We encourage you to record mortgage loans and home equity lines of credit, vehicle loans, credit cards, lines of credit, and promissory notes. Asking Equifax for a free credit report can capture anything you overlooked.
3. Make a Contact List
Who will your estate trustee contact when you die? Include your bank branch, investment brokers, insurance representatives, former employers, Canada Pension Plan, condo strata manager, and anyone who holds or manages assets for you.
4. Name Benefactors and Charities
Inform your executor of benefactors and charities you would like possessions or estate gifts to go to. Your estate trustee will use this contact information to distribute your estate according to your wishes.
5. Write Multiple Wills for Complex Estates
Complex estates require careful planning. Making multiple Wills separates personal and business assets. Axess Law’s Wills professionals ensure your Ontario Will is legally valid, reducing the chances it will be successfully challenged in court after you’re gone.
Axess Will can store your final Will for a one-time payment of $29.99 plus HST per Will. Or you can date, sign and make copies to leave with spouses, partners, trusted next-of-kin or friend, and your estate trustee.
Alternatively, we recommend storing the original in a safety deposit box for safe keeping and giving the location and key to your estate trustee. Depending on their size, safety deposit boxes cost between $50 and $400 a year.
For extra security, Wills can also be filed with an Ontario court for a one-time fee of $20.
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