As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot update your will after a divorce.

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 gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.

   How to actually do it

   1. Confirm whether the will is governed by England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, and note whether the divorce is final and which people or arrangements have changed.
   2. Open the current will and make a redacted copy that removes addresses, account numbers and other unnecessary personal data while leaving clauses, names by role and dates legible.
   3. Gather the divorce paperwork, details of any former spouse named in the will, current executor and beneficiary details, and notes about property, pensions, life policies, debts, children and new wishes.
   4. Paste the redacted will and the gathered facts into a chatbot with the supplied prompt, asking for a solicitor briefing rather than a final will.
   5. Compare the chatbot's summary line by line with the current will and your documents, deleting every statement it cannot support and marking questions it could not answer.
   6. Send the checked briefing and the relevant documents to a wills and estates solicitor, and ask the solicitor to prepare and supervise the correct replacement will or codicil and its signing and witnessing.

   Prompt

   I am preparing for a UK wills and estates solicitor after a divorce. My jurisdiction is [England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland]. Using the redacted current will and information below, do not give legal advice and do not claim that your wording is a valid will or codicil. Instead, produce: 1) a factual summary of what the current will appears to do, marking anything you cannot read or infer; 2) a list of provisions that may need solicitor attention after the divorce; 3) questions I should ask about my former spouse, executors, trustees, beneficiaries, guardians, property, pensions, life policies, debts, inheritance tax and any new partner or children; 4) a document checklist; and 5) a short solicitor briefing that clearly separates my stated wishes from facts that still need checking. Invent nothing, flag uncertainty, and do not tell me to sign or witness this draft. Current will: [paste a redacted copy or transcription]. Divorce information: [paste only the relevant facts]. My wishes: [describe them]. Family and estate information: [describe only what is relevant].

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