---
title: "Review a will a client drafted with ChatGPT"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/trusts-and-estate-planning/review-a-will-a-client-drafted-with-chatgpt"
type: "task"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A19-B6-1"
practice_area: "Trusts & Estate Planning"
tier: "red"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["AU"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-10"
---

# Review a will a client drafted with ChatGPT

> Compare the AI-drafted will against formal-validity requirements and ambiguity risks.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/trusts-and-estate-planning/review-a-will-a-client-drafted-with-chatgpt  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Trusts & Estate Planning](https://ailawframework.com/practice/trusts-and-estate-planning.md) |
| Human involvement | Red: Lawyer writes; AI may check, clarify or collect data |
| How AI is used | Compare the AI-drafted will against formal-validity requirements and ambiguity risks. |
| What the lawyer must review | Lawyer redrafts; AI wills often fail on execution and gifts that adeem or lapse. |
| Written for / versions | Australia |

## Checking plan

**Lawyer-led judgement**

The lawyer makes the substantive assessment. Any permitted AI assistance remains supporting work with its own checks.

- What the AI does: Compare the AI-drafted will against formal-validity requirements and ambiguity risks.
- What the lawyer does: Lawyer redrafts; AI wills often fail on execution and gifts that adeem or lapse.
- Who reviews: Lawyer competent in the matter and the forum
- Basis: Planning guidance checked against the linked public sources on 10 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.
- Why: The traffic light follows the consequence of an error and how much of the output the lawyer must check before it is used.
- Restriction: The lawyer leads the substantive decision. Any assistance stays inside the preparation described for this task.
- Written for: AU

## Checks the lawyer makes

1. Open the cited source and confirm it is the current instrument for this forum and this date.
2. Lawyer redrafts; AI wills often fail on execution and gifts that adeem or lapse.
3. Compare the output with the source and the instructions, including material the output left out.
4. The responsible lawyer approves the exact output for its intended use, or sends it back.

## Notes

- Suggested working checks from the linked public sources. Read the source and confirm it applies to this forum and this date. The checks do not approve software or record that the work is done.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: Australia

**Deliverable**: Review a will a client drafted with ChatGPT

**Inputs**

- Maddocks: estate planning and AI
- Solomon Hollett: perils of an AI will
- The matter instructions and the documents the output will rely on.

**Example**: Stop before the result is filed, sent or relied on. Lawyer redrafts; AI wills often fail on execution and gifts that adeem or lapse.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The cited source is not the instrument that applies to this forum or this date.
- The output states a fact, date, citation, figure or commitment that is not in the instructions or the source.
- The responsible lawyer has not approved the exact output for its intended use.

Checked 2026-10-10.

## Sources

- [Maddocks: estate planning and AI](https://www.maddocks.com.au/insights/estate-planning-in-the-age-of-ai-convenience-or-catastrophe) (checked 2026-10-10)
- [Solomon Hollett: perils of an AI will](https://solomonhollettlawyers.com.au/news/perils-of-an-ai-will/) (checked 2026-10-10)

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*