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WILL WRITING IN SINGAPORE

Write your will properly, once.

Your will, your LPA and your CPF nomination, prepared with our team and explained in plain English. So your family is left a plan, not a problem.

Without a will, the law decides for you.

Singapore law is equal. But what is equal may not be fair, and what is fair may not be what you intended. Here is what happens to four common assets when nothing is written down.

01

The property

Divided under the Intestate Succession Act, not by your wishes. A property held as joint tenants passes to the surviving owner automatically.

02

CPF savings

Your will does not cover CPF at all. Only a CPF nomination does. With no nomination, the Public Trustee distributes it.

03

Bank accounts

Frozen until the court appoints an administrator, often for months. Someone must apply to court and be appointed before anyone can touch it.

04

Child below 21

The care and financial future of a minor child are decided by statutory laws rather than personal wishes.

Compare all seven assets, with and without a will

Three steps, and it is done.

01

A conversation

One sitting, in person or over a call. What you own, how each thing is held, and who you want looked after. No forms to fill in beforehand.

02

Your draft, in plain English

We prepare the documents and walk you through them line by line, including the parts most people skip. You change anything you want changed.

03

Signing & registering

Signed and witnessed under supervision, because this is the step that is easiest to get wrong and fatal when it is. Then registered with the Wills Registry, so your executor can find it.

The three things that quietly invalidate a will.

Two witnesses, both present at the same time as you sign, not one after the other.

Neither witness may be a beneficiary or a beneficiary's spouse, or that gift is void.

The original must be findable. Singapore's Wills Registry, run by the Singapore Academy of Law, records where a will is kept.

Formalities under the Wills Act. We supervise all three at signing.

You will deal with our team, from start to finish.

No call centre, no rotating account manager, no template filled in and forgotten. Our will-writing team sits with you, prepares the documents, and is who you call in five years when something changes.

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A quiet consultation table set for two

Questions people actually ask.

Executors, overseas and digital assets, trusts, codicils, and what marriage does to a will. Every question we are asked most, answered on one page.

Read the FAQ

What we prepare with you.

A will on its own often leaves gaps. These are the pieces that make it hold together.

01

Your will

The core document. Who receives what, who carries it out, and what happens if someone named in it passes before you. Written in plain English so your family can read it without a translator.

02

Lasting Power of Attorney

A will speaks after death. An LPA speaks while you are alive but unable to decide: who manages your money and your care. Most families discover they needed one at the worst possible moment. We complete it with you on the government's own portal.

03

CPF & insurance nominations

The assets your will cannot touch. We do your CPF nomination at the same time as your will and, if need be, help with your insurance policy nominations, so nothing contradicts.

04

Executor & guardian nomination

The two decisions people put off hardest: who administers the estate, and who raises your children. We talk both through properly, including the backups.

05

Wills Registry & updates

We do not hold your original. Once it is signed, we ask you to register it with the Wills Registry (a $50 fee), so your family knows where to find it. Life changes; we revisit the documents with you when it does.

06

Living, standby & testamentary trusts

Where a beneficiary is young, has special needs, lives overseas or cannot manage money, a trust decides how and when they receive it. We set up all three kinds and explain which one fits.

REAL-LIFE SITUATIONS

What happens when nobody plans.

Real cases from Singapore's papers. Read what happened, and what it means for your own plan.

See all real-life situations
  1. 01A flat and a second propertyHis name was on the title. The court still split the shop four ways.CNA · read the case note
  2. 02A business ownerFour siblings, two shophouses worth $5m, and no will.The Straits Times · read the case note
  3. 03Caring for a parent$4m sat in joint accounts. The Court of Appeal gave it to all four children.The Straits Times · read the case note

Before you book.

Yes. Singapore law requires that a will is in writing, signed by you, and witnessed by two people who are not beneficiaries or their spouses. It does not require a lawyer. What it does require is getting those formalities exactly right, and that is where home-made wills tend to come apart.

Usually one sitting, then a draft back to you to read in your own time. You sign when you are satisfied with it, not before.

Nothing. If you already know roughly what you own and how it is held, that speeds things up, but we can work through it together from a blank page.

No. Once it is signed, we ask you to register it with the Wills Registry (a $50 fee), so your family knows where to find it.

Read every question on the FAQ page

Start your will.

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