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Updated August 6, 2026. Quick answer: LawDepot is a subscription to a document library, not a purchase of a will. If you need several documents in a year, or expect to revise repeatedly, that is good value. If you want exactly one will and nothing else, its own published price is beaten by products we earn nothing from — the arithmetic is below.
What LawDepot publishes
LawDepot’s marketing pricing page renders only with JavaScript and served us no readable price at all. The figures below are quoted from LawDepot’s own Help Centre, read August 6, 2026.
| Licence | What LawDepot’s Help Centre says |
|---|---|
| One Year Pro | “This license is billed annually at a rate of $107.88 (which breaks down to $8.99 per month)”, and “Your subscription renews automatically every year until canceled” |
| Free Trial | “The trial gives you free access to all documents for one week” — and “This license renews at $35 per month after the trial ends” |
| Single document | “a flat rate between $0 – $139” |
The honest cons, from LawDepot’s own terms
The free trial is not a free will. It is a week of access that, in LawDepot’s own words, “renews at $35 per month after the trial ends”. If you download a will on day two and forget the trial exists, you are billed. That is the single most important sentence on this page and it is the one our commission gives us the most reason to bury, so it is in bold instead.
The annual licence is the cheaper door, and it is not the one the trial puts you behind. One Year Pro is $107.88 for the year; the trial’s monthly conversion is $35, so three months of the accidental path costs more than the whole year of the deliberate one. Choose the licence on purpose.
Two things LawDepot does not publish on any route we could read: its refund policy, and what happens to documents you already created once you cancel. Both matter, both are ordinary things to publish, and we are not going to guess at them. Print and store the signed original of any will regardless of what a vendor promises about storage — a will is a paper instrument at the moment it matters.
And the arithmetic that our own commission does not survive: if you want one will, once, LawDepot’s $107.88 year competes against a $0 option and against one-year desktop products at a similar price that include a living trust. For a single simple will there is no case in which a subscription is the cheapest correct answer. We would rather say that than earn a commission on a reader who did not need us.
Does it handle your state
LawDepot builds documents from a state selection, and its catalogue covers all US jurisdictions — but the coverage claim we could verify is that it offers a document for your state, not that it handles every execution formality your state imposes. That distinction is the one that voids wills.
No will-making product can make a document valid if your state’s execution rules are not followed, and those rules vary more than people expect: witness counts differ, some states void a gift to a witnessing beneficiary, holographic wills are recognised in some states and not others, and a self-proving affidavit is mandatory in some places and merely convenient elsewhere. We publish those requirements with the statute cited for all 50 states and DC at will requirements by state, alongside POA execution rules and advance directive rules. Read your own row before you buy anything.
Who it is for, and who should buy something else
- Good fit: you need more than a will in the same year — a power of attorney, a lease, a promissory note, a bill of sale. The library model is the whole point, and $8.99 a month against several documents is genuinely cheap.
- Good fit: you expect to revise. Unlimited access for a year means a change after a marriage, a birth or a move costs nothing extra.
- Buy something else: one simple will, no other documents, no plans to revise. Compare the routes at what a will actually costs, and see the free option in the full comparison.
- Buy something else: blended family, a disabled beneficiary, a business, or property in two states. No form product is the right answer there — the case for a lawyer sets out why without pretending a lawyer is always necessary. If you do nothing at all, your state’s intestacy statute is the plan you have chosen.
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How we reviewed this, and what would change the verdict
Every price and term on this page was read from the product’s own published pages on August 6, 2026 and is quoted with its wording intact. Where the company does not publish something, this page says “not published” rather than filling the gap from a competitor’s review — copied pricing is why this category is untrustworthy. LawDepot is our affiliate partner and this page still tells single-will buyers to go elsewhere; that is what the disclosure is for.
What would change this verdict: a change to the published price or terms, a state execution rule the product handles incorrectly, or a documented pattern of the product failing to deliver what its own terms promise. What would not: whether we earn anything. See editorial policy, methodology and corrections — if a figure here goes stale, tell us and it gets fixed with the date shown.
All five products side by side: online will makers compared. The whole machine: estate planning.