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

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. Find the signed copy of your current will and note which UK jurisdiction applies to you: England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland.
   2. Gather the facts a solicitor will need, including your marriage, children, dependants, previous wills, property, overseas assets, business interests, intended beneficiaries and proposed executors.
   3. Remove unnecessary personal data, paste the will and facts into the prompt, and ask the chatbot to produce the solicitor briefing and missing-facts list.
   4. Compare the chatbot's summary against the actual will and your marriage and family documents, correcting every mistaken name, relationship, asset or intention.
   5. Take the original will, the corrected briefing and relevant documents to a solicitor who handles wills and estates, and ask them to confirm whether the marriage affects the existing will and what replacement document is needed.
   6. Sign and witness the solicitor-approved will exactly as instructed, then store the executed document safely and tell your executors where it is.

   Prompt

   I got married and need to review my will under the law of [England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland]. I will paste my existing will and a factual summary of my circumstances below. Do not present your response as legal advice and do not say that a draft is valid. Explain which parts a solicitor should check, including the effect of marriage, beneficiaries, executors, guardians, trusts, gifts, property, overseas assets, previous marriages, children and any business interests where relevant. Identify missing facts and ask me focused questions. Produce a concise briefing for a solicitor, a list of documents to take, and a list of points that may need changing. Do not invent facts, legal rules, signing requirements or tax consequences. Tell me clearly where the solicitor and the formal signing and witnessing process take over.
   
   Existing will:
   [PASTE THE WILL]
   
   Factual summary:
   [PASTE ONLY FACTS YOU ARE COMFORTABLE SHARING]

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