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A will, writtenaround your children
Everything a Last Will and Testament does, plus the two paragraphs that only matter when someone is still growing up in your house: who raises them, and who manages what you leave them until they are ready.
About 20 minutesGuardian and alternateFree updates forever
What it does
Two decisions, one document
This is the same will, with the parts about children written properly rather than left as a single line. It makes two appointments that nothing else in a plan can make, and it separates them on purpose.
The first is the guardian: the person who raises your children day to day, chooses their school, signs the medical forms and decides what bedtime is. The second is the person who manages the money you leave them. Most parents assume those are the same job. They are two jobs, and they often suit two different people. The sibling who would be a wonderful parent to your children is not automatically the one you would hand a lump sum to invest for fifteen years.
It also fixes the timing problem. Money left outright to a minor is held for them and handed over in full the day they reach the age of majority, which in most states is eighteen. Eighteen is a legal threshold, not a readiness one. A children’s trust inside your will lets you say twenty five instead, or in thirds at twenty two, twenty five and thirty, and lets the money be used for school and health in the meantime.
What a court has to decide instead
- A judge selects the guardian from among whoever comes forward and petitions
- Your written preference carries real weight with that judge, and there is nowhere to record it except a will
- Relatives who disagree about the right home argue it out in a hearing rather than reading your answer
- A child’s inheritance is normally released in full at the age of majority in your state
- Someone has to be appointed to hold that money in the meantime, and it may not be who you would have picked
- Nothing in the process accounts for a child who needs their share managed for longer than their siblings
None of this is a failure of the court. It is what a judge is left to work out when there are no instructions to follow, and it is the one gap on this whole platform that only a parent can close.
What is included
A full will, with the children’s clauses written out
Generated from your answers and issued against the execution rules of the state you live in, with a signing checklist you can follow the same evening.
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Guardian and alternate guardian
Names who raises your children and who steps in if that person cannot. Naming a guardian with no alternate is the most common omission on this document, and it is the one that undoes it.
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A statement of your reasons, if you want one
An optional paragraph explaining why you chose this person. It is not binding on anyone, and it is often the paragraph that settles a family argument before it starts.
03
A children’s trust inside the will
Holds each child’s share rather than releasing it at eighteen. You set the age or the stages, and the money stays available for education, health and support until then.
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Trustee for your children’s shares
The person who manages that money, named separately from the guardian so you can pick each on their own merits, with an alternate for the same reason.
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Separate or common shares
Whether the money is split into a fixed share per child immediately, or held as one pot that pays for whoever needs it until the youngest reaches a set age. With a wide age gap between children this choice matters a great deal.
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Provision for a child with different needs
Where one child needs their share managed for longer, or handled differently, the document says so rather than treating equal division as automatically fair.
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Executor, specific gifts and residuary estate
Everything the standard will does. Who administers the estate, the named items that matter to you, and where the remainder goes so nothing is left undistributed.
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Signature block and signing checklist for your state
The right number of witness lines for where you live, a self proving affidavit where your state allows one, and step by step instructions covering who cannot act as a witness.
Who needs this
Anyone with a child who still lives at home
The test is simply whether someone under eighteen depends on you. If so, this is the version of the will to write, and it is the most urgent document on the platform.
You are a parent of young children
This is the whole reason the document exists. If you do one thing here and nothing else, name a guardian and an alternate. It takes twenty minutes and it is the only place that choice can be recorded.
You are raising children on your own
Where there is no second parent who would automatically continue, or where the other parent is not in a position to, the guardian appointment is the entire plan rather than a backup to it.
Your family is blended
Stepchildren you have raised are not covered by default rules that follow marriage and bloodlines. If you want them treated the same as your other children, this is the document that says so by name.
You would rather not hand over a lump sum at eighteen
Almost every parent, once they picture it. The children’s trust is the part that changes eighteen into an age you actually chose, and it is why this version costs ten dollars more than the standard will.
Guardianship is named in a will, never in a trust. If you already have a revocable living trust, you still need this document, and its pour over will is included with Legacy Complete™.
Part of your bigger plan
The document your plan keeps asking about
Of everything the platform tracks, an unnamed guardian is the gap it is most insistent about. It sits at the top of your recommendations and stays there until the document is signed and in your vault, because no other action available to you is worth as much.
Once it is signed, Estate Readiness moves and your LQ™ Score recalculates. If you named a guardian but no alternate, that becomes the next recommendation rather than a quietly accepted half measure. If you set a children’s trust age, Legacy Lens™ knows what year that money is scheduled to be released and can hold it beside your education goal.
It works in the other direction too. Add a child and your plan flags that your will names two children by name and now needs three. Your youngest turning eighteen changes what the document still governs, and the platform tells you rather than waiting for you to notice.
What naming a guardian is worth
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Estate Readiness leans on your LQ™ Score harder than any other pillar. For a household with young children the guardian appointment is the largest single move on it, which is why the platform will not stop mentioning it.
Points shown are illustrative. Your own movement depends on what your will covers and what you already had in place.
Pricing
Two ways to get it
$49
The will with minor children on its own, yours to keep. Locked once you finalise it, with no Legacy Lens™ and no further edits without a plan.
Buy the documentThe single document costs $49. A year of Starter costs $29.
Which matters more here than on any other document, because this is the one that changes. A new child, a guardian who moves abroad, a child old enough that the trust age needs revisiting. On a plan every one of those edits is free.
Questions
About naming a guardian, specifically
Twenty minutes
Twenty minutes now. The one answer nobody else can give for you.
Name a guardian, name an alternate, see your LQ™ Score, and decide about a plan afterwards.
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