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title: "How to use AI for wills and estate planning in Australia"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/guides/ai-wills-australia"
type: "how_to_guide"
site: "AI Law Framework"
practice_area: "Family, wills and private client"
---

# How to use AI for wills and estate planning in Australia

> A will is formal. A tool can turn written instructions into a first draft. Capacity, the gifts and the execution are the solicitor’s, and a client’s own chatbot will is a warning, not a precedent.

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## Check this before you rely on it

Instructions for a will are confidential and often include health and family information. The Uniform Law statement, the Law Society of New South Wales guide and Queensland Guidance Statement No. 37 apply before they are pasted anywhere.

## Steps

1. **Draft only from instructions the solicitor has taken.** The first draft follows the attendance note, in the firm’s approved tool. It does not invent gifts, executors or a family the client did not describe. Queensland Guidance Statement No. 37 is the check on where that note is processed.
2. **The solicitor checks capacity, formalities and the gifts.** Capacity, knowledge and approval, who benefits, who is left out, and the execution rules of the Wills Act that governs the will are not a formatting pass. The Law Society of New South Wales guide and the Uniform Law regulators’ statement leave that work with the solicitor. Witnessing rules are not the same in every state. Open the Act you are using.
3. **Warn clients about a will a chatbot produced alone.** A document a client generated without advice can fail execution, miss an eligible person, or dispose of an asset the client does not own. Say that plainly. Offer to read it as instructions, not as a will you will witness unread.

## Questions

**Is it allowed to use AI for wills and estate planning in Australia?**

Yes, for a first draft from the solicitor’s instructions. Capacity, the gifts and execution stay with the solicitor. The Wills Act is the state’s, not the tool’s.

**What tools are used for wills and estate planning?**

Use the firm’s approved drafting tenancy. This page does not list a specialist wills product, and a consumer chatbot is not one.

**Is a will written by a chatbot valid?**

Only if it meets the formalities and the client had capacity. Many do not. Do not witness one you have not read, and do not tell the client the tool has made it valid.

## Sources

- [Uniform Law regulators: Statement on AI use](https://lsbc.vic.gov.au/news-updates/news/statement-use-artificial-intelligence-australian-legal-practice)
- [LSNSW: Solicitor's guide to responsible AI use](https://www.lawsociety.com.au/AI-hub/solicitors-guide-responsible-use-artificial-intelligence)
- [QLS Guidance Statement No 37](https://www.qls.com.au/practising-law-in-qld/ethics/guidance-statements/no-37-artificial-intelligence-in-legal-practice)

## Related

- [Wills and estates tasks](https://ailawframework.com/practice/wills-estates-probate-and-succession.md)
- [Law firm AI policy](https://ailawframework.com/guides/law-firm-ai-policy-australia.md)
- [Telling clients about AI use](https://ailawframework.com/guides/disclose-ai-use-to-clients-australia.md)