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You'll see organizers sold with a wink — "your complete estate solution," "a will alternative." Run from that language. An organizer and a will are different tools doing different jobs, and pretending otherwise can hurt the very people you're trying to help.
An organizer holds information and wishes: where things are, who to call, what you'd want, how your life is wired. It makes your people effective in the first hours and weeks. It's written in your words, by you, and you can change it tonight with a pen. Nothing in it directs a bank, a court, or a hospital to do anything — and honest organizers say so on the first page. Ours does.
A will is a legal document that directs what happens to what you own, and it only works if it meets your state's requirements for signing, witnesses, and form. The same is true of a health-care directive and a power of attorney — state-specific legal documents. Preparing those documents for someone, or selling tailored versions of them, is the practice of law when a non-lawyer does it; courts have said so repeatedly. That's why this kit contains no legal forms and no fill-in will, and never will.
Every wishes worksheet in our kit carries this line, because it's true: "My wishes — a guide for my people. This is not a will or a legal document, and it does not change who legally inherits anything." If an organizer you own doesn't carry words like those, write them on it yourself.
What the kit does cover is everything around the legal documents — the finding, the phoning, the feeding, the paying. See the Organizer Kit.