Draft a Florida Legal Document Online

What you can draft, and what it costs

Every price is the live published price, one time, with no subscription and a free preview before payment.

The Florida probate filing set is a separate product: see the probate engine.

How single-document drafting works

1. Choose the instrument

Each card above opens the questionnaire for that document alone. The lady bird deed, the Companion Will, and the pour-over will have their own intake; everything else uses the single-document intake at the single-document price.

2. Answer in plain language

The questions ask for your facts and the elections Florida law leaves to you, and they explain the rule each rests on. An election you do not make renders the instrument’s blank, never a default the software chose.

Some of the questions exist only because this is Florida. The will asks how your home is titled and who should receive it, because the homestead devise restrictions (§732.401, §732.4015) decide what a will can do with it; it asks whether your spouse has signed a written waiver of homestead rights (§732.702). The power of attorney presents the §709.2202 powers as separate lines for you to initial, because a general grant cannot confer them. The healthcare directive asks whether the surrogate’s authority should begin now (§765.202(6)) and which of the §765.113 decisions you delegate. The deed asks what happens if a beneficiary does not survive you, because the deed has to say so.

3. Preview free, then pay once

The assembled document appears before any payment; the order summary names the exact document, formats, exclusions, and refund path. Independent legal services are never included and never required.

4. Download and sign

Word and print-ready PDF, with a copy in your account, and the Florida signing instructions for that instrument. Nothing is filed or recorded by the software; a deed is recorded with the county clerk, and the minor-children preneed declaration is filed with the clerk of the court.

Signing rules by document

When a plan beats a single document

Four single documents — the will, the power of attorney, the healthcare directive, and the HIPAA release — cost $396 separately. The Will-Based Plan prepares the same four instruments from one questionnaire for $199, with the plan’s single signing sheet. A single document is the right choice when you already have a plan and need one instrument updated, or when only one is missing — a HIPAA release for a family with a trust, a preneed guardian declaration for new parents. See the Florida estate plan and the pricing page.

What the software never does

It never gives legal advice, never reviews your situation, and never chooses for you. It never runs a model over a consumer document; the instrument is assembled deterministically from a locked master. It never files or records anything, and it never sends a document anywhere on your behalf. It is not a substitute for a Florida attorney where your facts call for one — and the questionnaire says so at the points where families most often need that judgment.

Which document do you need?

Last will and testament

Who inherits what you own in your name alone, who serves as personal representative, and who raises your minor children. Everyone needs one; a will alone still passes through probate.

Revocable living trust

Probate avoidance for the assets you fund into it, a successor trustee on incapacity, privacy, and staged inheritances for younger beneficiaries. Worth it when you own a home and accounts, or property in more than one state.

Durable power of attorney

Someone to act on your finances now and if you cannot — accounts, property, taxes, benefits. Effective when signed; Florida no longer allows a springing power (§709.2108).

Healthcare directive and living will

Who decides your medical care when you cannot (§765.202) and what you want at the end of life (§765.302). Every adult; hospitals ask for it.

HIPAA release

Who may receive your medical information. It is what lets the surrogate, the agent, and the successor trustee learn the facts that trigger their authority.

Preneed guardian declaration

Who serves as your guardian, or your children’s, if a court is ever involved — and, for children, it works during a parent’s incapacity, which a will cannot (§744.3045, §744.3046).

Florida lady bird deed

One property passed at death outside probate while you keep every power. The Companion Will covers everything the deed does not.

The Florida rules every single document must respect

A will cannot devise the homestead freely when a spouse or minor child survives (§732.401, §732.4015), cannot defeat the elective share (§732.2065), and is rewritten by the statutes on marriage, a birth, or divorce (§732.301, §732.302, §732.507(2)). A power of attorney is effective when signed and must be witnessed and notarized (§709.2105); the powers listed in §709.2202 take effect only if you initial them. A healthcare surrogate may not be one of your two witnesses, and at least one witness must be neither your spouse nor a blood relative (§765.202); the surrogate’s authority begins on a physician’s determination unless you stipulate immediate authority (§765.202(6), §765.204). A deed of homestead needs the spouse’s joinder when the owner is married. The masters state these rules in their own articles; the signing instructions repeat them.

Updating a document you already have

A will is changed by a codicil or replaced by a new will, each signed with the same two-witness formalities (§732.502); a later will revokes the earlier one to the extent they conflict (§732.505), and marking up the original is never the way. A revocable trust is amended by a signed writing with the trust’s testamentary formalities (§736.0403(2)(b)) and does not need to be re-funded. A durable power of attorney is revoked by a written revocation delivered to the agent and to the institutions that relied on it, and a new one signed under §709.2105. A healthcare directive is revoked by a signed writing, by physically destroying it, by an oral expression of intent to revoke, or by a later directive (§765.104); a lady bird deed is changed by recording a new deed. A single document from the same master is the ordinary way to update one instrument without redoing the plan.

Questions families ask

EstateDraftFL is document-preparation software. It is not a law firm, does not provide legal advice or represent you, and is not a substitute for the advice or services of an attorney. Your documents are assembled deterministically from source-locked Florida law — the software types your own information into reviewed templates and never authors the operative law. The completeness and format checks are software checks; there is no automated review of your situation and no review by a lawyer. You remain responsible for the final document and for completing the signing and witnessing formalities Florida law requires.