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Singapore wills,drafted once, properly.

Plain-English wills and lasting powers of attorney for Singapore families. Prepared once, registered, easy to update.

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A will is not paperwork. It is the difference between grieving and negotiating.

Without one, Singapore law decides who receives what, in fixed shares and in its own time, through a court process your family has to start themselves while they are least able to.

What's worse? Family disputes and feuds may arise. Singapore law is equal. But what is equal may not be fair. What is fair may not be what is intended. Leave behind a legacy, not issues that your loved ones need to resolve.

We prepare wills, lasting powers of attorney and the nominations that sit alongside them, for families, business owners and anyone who would rather decide this themselves.

Who actually receives what.

Most people assume a will covers everything they own. In Singapore, some of the largest assets sit outside it entirely. Switch the toggle and watch where each one really goes.

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The property
Divided under the Intestate Succession Act, not by your wishes.
A jointly-held property passes to the surviving owner automatically.
CPF savings
Paid to your CPF nominees. With no nomination, the Public Trustee distributes it.
Your will does not cover CPF at all. Only a CPF nomination does.
Insurance payout
To your policy nominees. With none, it falls into the estate and waits.
A nomination overrides your will, whatever the will says.
Bank accounts
Frozen until the court appoints an administrator, often for months.
Someone must apply to court and be appointed before anyone can touch it.
Business share
Passes in the fixed statutory shares, whoever that lands on.
Your partners may end up in business with your beneficiaries.
Child below 21
The care and financial future of a minor child are decided by statutory laws rather than personal wishes.
Specific gifts
The item or property has to be divided using intestate law and most likely sold and distributed in cash.

Based on the Intestate Succession Act 1967 and the CPF and insurance nomination rules as they stand in Singapore. General information only, not legal advice. Your own outcome depends on how each asset is held. Muslim estates are distributed under Faraid and are handled separately.

What we prepare.

01

Your will

The core document. Who receives what, who carries it out, and what happens if someone named in it passes before you. Written in plain English so your family can read it without a translator.

02

Lasting Power of Attorney

A will speaks after death. An LPA speaks while you are alive but unable to decide: who manages your money and your care. Most families discover they needed one at the worst possible moment. We complete it with you on the government's own portal.

03

CPF & insurance nominations

The assets your will cannot touch. We do your CPF nomination at the same time as your will and, if need be, help with your insurance policy nominations, so nothing contradicts.

04

Executor & guardian nomination

The two decisions people put off hardest: who administers the estate, and who raises your children. We talk both through properly, including the backups.

05

Wills Registry & updates

We do not hold your original. Once it is signed, we ask you to register it with the Wills Registry (a $50 fee), so your family knows where to find it. Life changes; we revisit the documents with you when it does.

06

Living, standby & testamentary trusts

Where a beneficiary is young, has special needs, lives overseas or cannot manage money, a trust decides how and when they receive it. We set up all three kinds and explain which one fits.

Three steps, and it is done.

01

A conversation

One sitting, in person or over a call. What you own, how each thing is held, and who you want looked after. No forms to fill in beforehand.

02

Your draft, in plain English

We prepare the documents and walk you through them line by line, including the parts most people skip. You change anything you want changed.

03

Signing & registering

Signed and witnessed under supervision, because this is the step that is easiest to get wrong and fatal when it is. Then registered with the Wills Registry, so your executor can find it.

The three things that quietly invalidate a will.

Two witnesses, both present at the same time as you sign, not one after the other.

Neither witness may be a beneficiary or a beneficiary's spouse, or that gift is void.

The original must be findable. Singapore's Wills Registry, run by the Singapore Academy of Law, records where a will is kept.

Formalities under the Wills Act. We supervise all three at signing.

You will deal with our team, from start to finish.

No call centre, no rotating account manager, no template filled in and forgotten. Our will-writing team sits with you, prepares the documents, and is who you call in five years when something changes.

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REAL-LIFE SITUATIONS

It has already happened to families like yours.

Real cases and figures from Singapore's papers, grouped by the situations we see most. Read what happened, and what each one means for your own plan.

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  1. 01A young familyIn a 2020 survey, only a quarter of Singaporeans with young children had named a guardian.The Straits Times · read the case note
  2. 02A flat and a second propertyHis name was on the title. The court still split the shop four ways.CNA · read the case note
  3. 03A business ownerFour siblings, two shophouses worth $5m, and no will.The Straits Times · read the case note
  4. 04A blended familyHer only living relative sued her partner for their joint account. The court sided with the partner.The Straits Times · read the case note
  5. 05Caring for a parent$4m sat in joint accounts. The Court of Appeal gave it to all four children.The Straits Times · read the case note

Questions people actually ask.

Executors, overseas and digital assets, trusts, codicils, and what marriage does to a will. Every question we are asked most, answered on one page.

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