Estate Planning

Planning your estate is easier than you may think. Learn the essentials to estate planning and create personalized estate and health care documents to ensure you and your loved ones are protected.

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Updated March 2026
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Living Will

Create a living will that records your healthcare wishes if you become terminally ill, permanently unconscious, or unable to communicate, including instructions about life-sustaining treatment and comfort care.

Living Will

Essential estate planning documents

Our most commonly used documents trusted by users around the country every single day.

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Create a living will that records your healthcare wishes if you become terminally ill, permanently unconscious, or unable to communicate, including instructions about life-sustaining treatment and comfort care.

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Create a special power of attorney authorising a trusted person to perform a specific act or transaction on your behalf, such as signing documents, dealing with property, banking, claims, applications, or administration.

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Create a family trust deed to hold and manage assets for family members, protect long-term family interests, regulate trustees, identify beneficiaries, and set rules for distributions and administration.

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Create a personal letter of wishes to guide your executor, trustees, guardians, and family about how you would like your estate, children, personal items, funeral wishes, and family matters handled.

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Create a donation agreement recording a gift of money, property, assets, equipment, shares, goods, or other value, including conditions, delivery, acceptance, warranties, tax treatment, and revocation rights where applicable.

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Create a legally structured last will and testament to record who must inherit your estate, who will act as executor, who should care for minor children, and how your assets should be distributed after death.

Important disclaimer

This site provides general legal information and document tools only—not legal advice. South African law changes through Acts, regulations, and case law. Confirm your position with an admitted attorney or notary, especially for wills, property transfers, credit agreements, and court filings.