For self-represented Floridians
My Estate Desk
Learn the rules that decide who inherits, create and check your own Florida plan, decide each item yourself, and reach an independent Florida attorney when a question needs one. Free to learn, no account required.
Self-help estate-planning software — general legal information, not legal advice, and not a substitute for a licensed Florida attorney. You are the author of your documents.
Step 1 · Learn
Understand the rules first
Before you decide anything, learn what Florida law actually says — in plain language, on real statutes, with worked examples. The library and the calculator are free and open; they state the law and recommend nothing.
The statute explainers
What Florida law actually says about intestacy, the elective share, homestead, antilapse, and how a will's own words control who takes — each against the verbatim, source-locked statute text.
Open the library →The Distribution Calculator
Model a family and see the exact shares under all three systems — Florida's default per stirpes, per capita with representation, and the 1990 UPC rule — side by side. It's arithmetic, not advice.
Try the calculator →Read about any topic
Every explainer states what Florida law provides, links its sources, and points to the related guides. General legal information — never a recommendation about your situation, and no assistant to ask.
See how it works →Questions about Florida estate law
General information onlyThe Learning Center answers questions about what Florida law provides — in plain language, on real statutes. It does not answer questions about your own situation; those belong to a licensed Florida attorney of your choosing.
Step 2 · Check
Create your plan, and check it
Create a Florida-tailored plan from locked master templates; the software’s completeness and format checks run before you download. For a document you already have, the platform explains what it does instead — it does not review, grade, or correct it.
Create your plan
Answer a guided questionnaire and get a Florida-tailored will, trust, power of attorney, or healthcare directive from locked master templates — you fill in the blanks, the software never composes law for you.
Start your plan →Documents you already have
EstateDraftFL does not review, grade, or correct a document you already have, and does not say what is right or wrong with it. This page explains what the platform does instead.
What we do instead →The plan you already have
No score and no diagnosis of your plan — that is a judgment for you and a licensed Florida attorney of your choosing. The Learning Center explains what Florida plans commonly include.
Read about plans →Your own readiness list
Before you plan: write down the people you would choose, the documents you have and anything time-sensitive. It stays in your browser; nothing is sent, and nothing is scored.
Start my list →Your estate desk
After delivery: mark what is printed, signed, kept and funded, check a file against what was delivered, set neutral reminders and let a helper read your checklist.
Open my desk →Step 3 · Decide
You decide each item — on the record
For a plan you create here, the completeness and format checks list what a document of its kind commonly includes and the published Florida statutes that speak to each topic — cited so you can read them yourself. You decide each item: keep it, change your own answer, or set it aside. Only your own answers change a document — the software applies them, adds nothing of its own, and never picks an option for you. Each choice is yours, recorded as yours.
That is the whole design: the decisions belong to you, so the documents are authored by you. For a plan you create here, changing your answers re-composes the documents from the reviewed masters — deterministically, never freehand.
For each item, you choose
- ✓Keep — You've read it and you're comfortable — it stands, and the document is unchanged.
- ✓Change — You change your own answer; the documents re-assemble from your words and return watermarked for your own reading.
- ✓Set aside — Not for you — it's set aside, the document is unchanged, and the record shows you decided so.
Step 4 · Connect
When it needs a lawyer, reach one
Self-help software is the right tool for a great many Florida families — and the wrong tool for some situations. When a question turns on judgment a nonlawyer tool can’t give — a contested homestead, a blended family, a taxable estate, a will already in dispute — the platform says so plainly — that is a question for a licensed Florida attorney of your choosing.
A nonlawyer tool, by design
EstateDraftFL is not a law firm and does not practice law. It prepares self-help documents from your own answers and gives you general legal information — the same protected self-help a Florida form book provides, with the software’s checks added. The judgment about your specific situation stays with you, and with any attorney you choose.
The software’s checks are completeness and format checks. They do not assess your situation.
My Estate Desk is a free education-first hub for self-represented Floridians. Everything here is general legal information — not legal advice, and not a substitute for a licensed attorney. The software’s checks are completeness and format checks; they do not assess your situation.