As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly choose a guardian for your children in your will.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open a free chatbot and state whether the will concerns England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, because the relevant rules may differ.
   2. Write down each child's age, care needs and important routines, then list each possible guardian's relationship, location, availability and any practical concern without adding private details that are not needed.
   3. Record your own priorities for education, family contact, culture, religion, day-to-day care and financial arrangements, then paste those facts and the prompt into the chatbot.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce the comparison table, discussion questions and solicitor questions, and remove any claim it has made up or any score based on missing information.
   5. Speak privately with each possible guardian about willingness, capacity, practical care and what support they would need, then compare their answers with the table.
   6. Take your preferred option, the other parent's or responsible adult's views where relevant, and the chatbot's solicitor question list to a UK wills solicitor, and follow the solicitor's process for recording the decision in your will.

   Prompt

   I am considering who to name as guardian for my children in my will in [jurisdiction within the UK]. Help me prepare for the decision, but do not choose for me and do not give legal advice. Use only the facts I provide and mark anything that needs confirmation.
   
   My children: [ages and relevant needs]
   Possible guardians: [names or labels, relationship to the children, location, availability, relevant circumstances]
   My priorities: [values, schooling, family relationships, practical care, financial arrangements and other priorities]
   Constraints or concerns: [anything relevant]
   
   Create:
   1. A neutral comparison table using criteria I can assess, without inventing facts or scoring people where information is missing.
   2. The key questions I should discuss privately with each possible guardian, including whether they are willing and able to take on the role.
   3. Questions I should discuss with the other parent or anyone with parental responsibility, where relevant.
   4. A separate list of legal and practical points to ask a UK wills solicitor about, including how the choice should be recorded in my will and whether the law differs in my jurisdiction.
   5. A short decision checklist that separates facts, my preferences, the candidates' consent and matters requiring professional advice.
   
   Do not reveal or request unnecessary sensitive personal data. Do not state that naming someone guarantees the outcome. Do not draft a final will clause unless I ask a solicitor to review it first.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.