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Free will review — your will, read back in plain English.

Not a rewrite. Not a sales pitch.

A written Reading of what your will actually does, what it leaves out, and whether anything needs a professional — free, within 24–48 hours.

Most wills are fine. The point is knowing.

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What a Reading does — and doesn't

Reviewing your own will? Right place. No will yet?Check if a simple will covers you · Handling someone else's after a death?What to do when someone dies

§1The worry, named

A will can go stale and nobody tells you.

A will can be signed, stored, and completely out of date — and nobody sends you a letter when it stops matching your life. The document that was right the day you signed it drifts quietly: a marriage, a divorce, a birth, a house, a falling-out. The three questions people actually arrive with:

Is it still legal?

Witnessing and signing are where wills quietly fail — a beneficiary who witnessed loses their gift.

Does it still match my life?

Marriage can cancel a will entirely; divorce rewrites what an ex receives.

What does it actually do?

Most people have never had their own will explained back to them in plain English. That's the Reading.

§2The promise we won't make

What a Reading is — and isn't.

We don't tell you your will is "fine" — no honest reader can promise that from a document alone. A Reading tells you what your will says, what it cannot do, what may need doing, and what we can't see from the document — in writing, in plain English. If something needs a professional, the Reading says exactly why.

The services that promise more than that are selling you something.

§3How it works

Three steps.

Step 1
Send us your will

Upload it — or if you can't, answer a short set of questions about it instead. About ten minutes.

Step 2
It's read against your life

Not just the document: your marriage, children, home, and executors as they stand today — because that's where wills go stale.

Step 3
Your Reading arrives

Written, plain-English, within 24–48 hours, by email — yours to keep either way.

§4What the Reading covers

A Reading is specific.

Here is what actually gets looked at.

Signing & witnessing

The formal requirements, and the classic failure: a witness who benefits.

Life events since signature

Marriage (can revoke the will), divorce (rewrites gifts to an ex), births, deaths among your named people.

Property you may think it controls

Jointly-owned homes can pass outside a will; so do pensions.

Guardianship

Children under 18: named, and named workably.

Whether it's outgrown a simple will

Trusts, foreign assets, business property, blended families — if it has, the Reading says so and routes you honestly.

§5If it needs more

The honest fork.

Most wills need nothing — and if yours is one of them, you've paid nothing to find out. Where something genuinely needs attention, the Reading names it in plain English and gives you the route: fix it with a new will (from £149) · have the Reading professionally reviewed and signed (£79 — a named professional personally reviews and signs) · or, where your situation needs real legal work, a specialist takes it from there with everything you've told us already prepared. You choose, or do nothing at all — the Reading is yours either way.

§6Already sure you want a fresh one?

If your will is old enough that starting again is simpler, a legally binding will takes a single sitting — Start your will — £149, registration and 12 months of Will Watch included

FAQCommon questions

Frequently asked

Yes — the Reading costs nothing, needs no card and no account. Paid routes exist only if the Reading finds something you choose to act on.
No — a photo or scan is enough for a Reading. Keep the original safe; the Reading will tell you if where it's kept is itself a problem.
Possibly not: marriage generally revokes an earlier will unless it was made in contemplation of that marriage. This is exactly what a Reading checks.
Then the Reading isn't the tool — the two-minute check at /wills/quick-check is, and it's also free.
Your Reading is prepared and checked by Valoren's review process and delivered within 24–48 hours. Where you take the £79 sign-off, a named professional personally reviews and signs it.
No — a Reading is a plain-English explanation and an honest routing, not advice. Where advice is what you need, the Reading says so and points at the right kind of professional.
No — England & Wales only. Scottish succession law differs on the exact points a Reading checks.

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