How it works
From your first answer to a will signed on paper
Waseeyat™ helps you make a will designed against the reasons courts reject wills. You answer plain questions. We check your answers, a person reviews your draft, and you sign the printed will in ink before two witnesses, who also sign. Waseeyat is opening soon: new accounts are not open yet.
Nine steps, start to finish
Each step is explained below, in the order you will meet it.
Which law applies
A few questions decide which rules your will follows.Your answers
About you, your family, your executor, a guardian for minor children, what you own, who receives it, and your two witnesses.The checks
Your answers are checked for gaps and contradictions before any draft is made.A person reviews it
A Waseeyat reviewer reads your draft. An advocate's review is optional.Your signing kit
Your will, ready to print, with guidance for the day.Signing day
You sign in ink before two witnesses, who also sign.After signing
Record the signing, store a scan, note where the original is kept, and choose any optional extras.Keeping it current
A yearly reminder to look again. Changes are made by a codicil or a new will, never by hand.What happens later
Who can receive the record of how your will was prepared.
Which law applies to your will
Indian will law differs by community and, in some cases, by how you married. So the first questions ask which rules apply to you. We ask only to apply the right rules; the answer is not kept for anything else.
Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or Jain
Christian, Parsi, Jewish or other
Married under the Special Marriage Act, 1954
Muslim
If your situation is mixed
Answer the questions
Plain questions, one section at a time, in this order.
About you
Your full name as on your ID, a parent's name, your home address, and whether you read English. If you do not, you name the person who will read the will over to you and explain it, and the will records that.
Your family
Everyone, including married daughters and the children of any child who has died. Each person is named with their relationship, year of birth and city, so it is clear who is meant.
Your executor
The executor is the person a will appoints to carry it out (Indian Succession Act, section 2(c)). You name one, and a backup in case they cannot act. Both must be adults.
A guardian for minor children
If a child of yours is a minor, you name a guardian and a backup guardian. Your will then says that any gift to a minor is held for them by the guardian until they come of age.
What you own
Each asset, and how you hold it: in your own name, your share of something owned jointly, or your undivided share of ancestral property. Everything you list goes into a schedule printed inside the will and signed with it. The will never refers to a list kept elsewhere. The form does not accept property held by an HUF or held in trust for someone else. You can also note the nominee on record for each asset.
Who receives what
For each gift: who receives it, in what shares, and who receives it instead if they die before you. Whatever you do not list goes to the person you name for everything else.
Reasons, if you want to give them
If a spouse, child or parent receives less than others, or nothing, you can add a short, factual reason in your own words. It is optional.
Your two witnesses
Their full names, a parent's name, year of birth, address, phone, and the type and last four digits of an ID. Never the full number. "Choosing witnesses", below, explains who makes a good witness.
The signing day
Where and when you will sign, normally at home. The date and place are printed in the will, so nothing is written in by hand.
Your answers are checked before any draft
Before a draft is made, Waseeyat checks your answers for gaps and contradictions. Some findings must be fixed first. Others are advice: you read them and decide.
Nothing left blank
Every required answer must be filled in. A will is never printed with a gap to complete by hand.
Your family adds up
If you say you have children but list none, or say you have none but list some, you are asked to fix it. If you are married, your spouse must be listed. A child who has died prompts you to name their children.
Every gift is complete
Each gift is of something in your schedule, and each asset is given only once. Where a gift is split into shares, the shares add up to the whole. Every gift names someone to receive it instead. A gift for someone's lifetime names who receives it after them.
Minors have a guardian
A minor child of yours needs a guardian and a backup guardian. A minor who receives a gift needs a guardian named.
Witnesses are suitable
Two different adults, and never you. A witness who is named as a beneficiary, or who you say is married to one, is flagged. If the Act's will rules apply to you in full (Christians, Parsis, Jews and others), you must choose someone else. See "Choosing witnesses" below.
The date is right
The signing date must be today or later, because the will is printed for the day you sign.
Extra care where it helps
If you are 80 or older, or seriously ill, we recommend a doctor's certificate of fitness on the signing day, and the kit includes the form. If you will sign with a thumb impression, you say why, and the will records the reason.
Written by fixed rules, not by AI
Your will text is built from your answers by fixed rules. The same answers always give the same text. No AI writes your will.
A person reviews your draft
When your draft is ready, you send it for review. A Waseeyat reviewer reads it, then either asks for changes or releases it for printing.
If changes are needed
The reviewer tells you what to change. You update your answers, make a fresh draft and send it back.
Edits start a fresh review
If you change any answer after your draft is released for printing, the release ends and the new draft needs its own review. The kit always prints the version that was reviewed.
What the review is, and is not
It is a check of the drafting. It is not a finding that your will is valid. No website, including Waseeyat, can tell you whether a paper will is valid. Only a court can decide that.
Optional: an advocate's review
An empanelled advocate reads your draft and the facts behind it, and writes a review in their own words, signed in their own name. We assign the advocate; you do not choose from a list. The advocate is independent and responsible for their own work. Fixed price, shown before you pay. Opens at launch.
When an advocate's review is the route
If your situation is mixed, or the guided route for your community is not open yet, the advocate's review is offered in place of a guided will.
What you pay for
You can answer the questions, run the checks and see your draft before paying. The review and the signing kit come with the will product, at a fixed price shown before you pay. Opens at launch.
Your signing kit
Once your draft is released for printing, you download one PDF: your will, then the pages that guide the day. The kit downloads only once an empanelled advocate has signed off our will template. Opens at launch.
Your will
It opens with your declaration that you are of sound mind and acting of your own free will, and it states that it revokes all earlier wills and codicils. It lists your family, names your executor and any guardian, and sets out each gift and who receives everything else. Then come the schedule of what you own and the signing block.
Every page is marked
Every page shows your name, the document ID and the version. The will pages are numbered "Page X of Y", counted over the will alone, so a missing or added page shows. Each will page has initials lines.
The signing block and the attestation clause
The will ends with the date and place, your signature line, and an attestation clause in which both witnesses declare that they saw you sign, or that you acknowledged your signature to them, and that each signed in your presence.
Before you sign
A checklist for the day: how to print, who should be in the room, how you and your witnesses sign, and what to look for in a witness. It also says plainly that the will cannot be signed electronically.
A doctor's certificate form, when it helps
If you are 80 or older, or seriously ill, the kit adds a certificate of fitness for a doctor to complete on the signing day. It is recommended. A note on the form tells the doctor that a copy may be kept in your private vault, and how to say no.
After you sign
What to do next: keep the original safe, tell your executor where it is, store a scan, and never change the signed will by hand.
The evidence page
A separate sheet headed "This page is not part of your will". It prints the document ID, the version, when the kit was made, and a fingerprint of the will text that was reviewed: a SHA-256 code worked out from the text, which can be worked out again from the text and compared. It says that Waseeyat did not witness the signing, and who can get our record and how to ask. Keep it with the original will, or give it to your executor.
Kit pages are marked
Every page after the will says "Signing kit: not part of the will". You and your witnesses do not sign or initial those pages.
Your will is the paper you sign in ink
Indian law does not let a will be signed electronically (Information Technology Act, 2000, section 1(4) and First Schedule, entry 4). Your will is printed, and you sign it in ink or with a thumb mark. At least two witnesses must attest it, each signing in your presence (Indian Succession Act, 1925, section 63). Waseeyat's software refuses electronic signing for wills and codicils.
Signing day
One sitting, one original. You sign the printed will in ink, before your two witnesses, who then sign below you. Here is what the kit asks.
Print everything at once
Print every page at the same time, on the same paper, on one side only. Sign one original. A spare print is not your will.
Use the printed date and place
The date and place are already printed in the will. Sign on that day, at that place.
Both witnesses, together
The law does not require your two witnesses to be there at the same time (section 63). The kit asks for it anyway: both in the room with you for the whole signing, using the same pen. The will's signing paragraph records that they were present together.
How you sign
Sign at the end of the will, below the text, in your usual way. Initial each will page where the line says so. If you sign with a thumb impression, make it clear, not smudged.
How your witnesses sign
Each witness must see you sign (or see someone sign for you, in your presence and at your direction), or have you confirm the signature to them in person. Each then signs below your signature, in your presence.
Beneficiaries stay away
People who receive something under the will should not be in the room and should not organise the signing.
Nothing by hand
Do not add, strike out or fill in anything by hand. If something is wrong, do not sign: fix it in your workspace and print again. A change written on a signed will has no effect unless it is itself signed and witnessed (section 71).
Tell your witnesses
After your death, they may be asked to confirm in court that they saw you sign. Choose people you expect to be easy to find for many years.
Who should, and should not, be a witness
Choose adults who know you personally, who receive nothing under the will, and who can be found years from now, because one of them may have to tell a court what they saw.
Christian, Parsi, Jewish or other
If a witness, or a witness's husband or wife, receives anything under the will, that gift is void. The will is still properly attested; only the witness's gift fails (section 67). If you name a beneficiary as a witness, or tell us a witness is married to one, the questionnaire asks you to choose someone else.
Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or Jain
Section 67 does not apply to your will, so a gift to a witness does not fail on that ground (section 57 and Schedule III). We still recommend a witness who receives nothing, because a beneficiary closely involved in the signing invites questions in court. The questionnaire warns you if you choose one.
Under both sets of rules
A person is not disqualified as a witness to prove the will just because they have an interest in it or are its executor (Indian Succession Act, section 68). The questionnaire still suggests a witness who is not your executor.
Waseeyat's checklist
Adults of sound mind. People who know you personally. Not a beneficiary, and not a beneficiary's husband or wife. Likely to be reachable for many years, so younger rather than older. Two different people, and never you.
Why witnesses matter later
A will has to be proved before a court acts on it. At least one attesting witness must be called, if one is alive, within the court's reach and able to give evidence, even for a registered will (Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, section 67). If no attesting witness can be found, it must be proved that at least one witness's attestation is in that witness's handwriting, and that your signature is in yours (Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, section 68).
Your witnesses' privacy
You can keep a copy of a witness's ID in your vault only if the witness agrees, through an emailed link or a signed paper slip. You must not agree on a witness's behalf.
After you sign
What to do straight away, and the extras you can choose.
Record the signing
In your workspace, record the date and place, that both witnesses signed below your signature in your presence, where the original is kept and who knows. This is your own record. Waseeyat did not witness the signing and cannot confirm it. The yearly reminder, and your executor's request for the record after your death, both work only once you have recorded the signing.
Store a scan in your private vault
Scan every page of the signed will, in order, into one PDF, add it to your vault and link it to your will. If the original is lost or destroyed after your death, other than by your own act, a court may grant probate of a copy or draft (Indian Succession Act, section 237). The court will still need to be told how the original was lost, and to have the signing and witnessing proved (Supreme Court of India: Jagmail Singh v. Karamjit Singh, 13 May 2020; Dhanpat v. Sheo Ram, 19 March 2020).
How your vault keeps files
Each file is encrypted with its own key. Our servers in Singapore check and encrypt a file when you add it, and it is stored encrypted in Mumbai. Your files open only from your own account. Our staff screens never show them, and no AI reads them. The one exception we make ourselves is the scan of your signed will, explained next.
Your executor cannot open your vault
Waseeyat does not give anyone access to your vault, including your executor. So keep a printed copy of the scan where your executor can find it, and tell them where the original is. After your death, the scan goes to your executor only with the record of your will (step 9). A court or the police can obtain it at any time on a written order. Apart from that, nothing in your vault goes to anyone unless you choose to share it or the law requires it.
Keep track of the original
Update where the original is whenever it moves. If the original cannot be found after your death, a clear record of where it was kept helps your executor.
Optional: a signed-will check
You share the scan with an empanelled advocate we assign, only for this check. They check how the will was signed and witnessed, such as your signature, the two witnesses and their details, page initials, date and place, and tell you in writing what, if anything, to fix. Every read of the scan is recorded. It is not a finding that the will is valid. Fixed price, shown before you pay. Opens at launch.
Optional: registration
Registering a will is optional and can be done at any time (Registration Act, 1908, sections 18(e) and 27). It does not replace your witnesses: a registered will must still be proved through an attesting witness, if one is alive and able to give evidence (Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, section 67). Fees and procedures are set by each state.
Optional: a sealed deposit
You can deposit your will in a sealed cover with any Registrar, who records it and keeps it in a fire-proof box. You can take it back at any time. After your death, it is opened on an application (Registration Act, sections 42 to 45).
Keeping your will current
A will should keep up with your life. Change it in a way the law allows, never by writing on it.
Never write on the signed will
A crossing-out or addition made after signing has no effect unless it is itself signed and witnessed like a will (section 71). Make a codicil or a new will instead.
A codicil or a new will
A codicil explains, changes or adds to a will, and is treated as part of it (section 2(b)). Sign and witness it exactly as you did the will. Every will Waseeyat drafts states that it revokes all earlier wills and codicils, so there is no doubt which one counts.
If you marry
For Christians, Parsis, Jews and others, marriage revokes every earlier will, with one narrow exception (section 69), so make a new one; their Waseeyat wills say so in a declaration. For Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains, marriage does not revoke a will (proviso to section 57; Schedule III).
A yearly reminder
Once you have recorded the signing, your account reminds you on each anniversary to check that your executor and witnesses are still reachable, that what you own still matches the schedule, and that nothing in your family has changed.
Other times to look again
Also review your will when you marry or divorce, have a child, lose a beneficiary or a witness, or buy or sell something listed in the schedule.
Revoking a will
A will is revoked only by a later will or codicil, by a signed and witnessed document that says so, by destroying it (yourself, or through someone in your presence and at your direction) with the intention of revoking it, or, for Christians, Parsis, Jews and others, by marriage (section 70). Recording a revocation in your account keeps your record accurate. It does not revoke the will by itself.
What happens later
Your will is the signed paper. Waseeyat keeps a record of how it was prepared, and gives that record only to the people below.
What the record holds
Each version of the will text and its fingerprint, the reviewer's check, when you downloaded the signing kit, what you told us about the signing, and where you said the original is kept. It is not your will, and it cannot prove that the will was signed or witnessed.
You, while you are alive
Download your own copy from your workspace. If you have not signed in within the last 15 minutes, we ask you to sign in again first.
Your executor, after a checked death
The executor named in the will you recorded as signed (or the backup executor, if the executor cannot act) can receive the record, with the scan of your signed will if you linked one, once we have checked the death and who they are. First, we email you at your own address. If you sign in, the request stops. Nothing is released for at least 7 days, and two different people at Waseeyat must agree to the release.
The holder of a grant
The holder of a grant of probate or letters of administration, once we have checked the grant with the court.
A court or the police
At any time, on a written order. We confirm the order through official contact details we find ourselves, never those printed on it.
Nobody else
Anyone else who asks is told to ask your executor or a court. To ask for the record, write to the address on the evidence page, quoting the document ID. There is no online form for this.
Your vault stays closed
Apart from that record and the scan of your signed will, Waseeyat gives no one anything in your vault after your death unless the law requires it.
In court, and after
A court will still expect to hear from an attesting witness. Since 20 December 2025, the Indian Succession Act no longer makes probate a condition for an executor or a beneficiary to establish their rights under a will in court. Probate is still available, and banks and companies may ask for probate, letters of administration or a succession certificate before they release money or securities. An empanelled advocate can handle these court proceedings for a fixed fee quoted before the work starts. This service is not open yet.
What opens at launch, and what is still to come
Waseeyat is opening soon. New accounts and messages are not being accepted yet.
At launch: your account and your will
Sign-up opens. You can answer the questions, run the checks, see your draft and send it for review.
At launch: the signing kit
The kit downloads once an empanelled advocate has signed off our will template.
At launch: fixed prices
Every service has a fixed price, shown before you pay. Prices are not published yet.
At launch: advocate services
The advocate's review of your draft and the signed-will check, each by an independent empanelled advocate we assign, at a fixed price shown before you pay.
Still to come: Hindi and Urdu wills
The site's menus can already be shown in Hindi and Urdu. Will text in Hindi and Urdu is coming: it will be translated by a qualified translator and checked by an advocate who is a native speaker. Until then, the will is in English. If you do not read English, the will names who read it over to you and explained it.
Still to come: the guided Muslim route
It opens after an empanelled advocate has reviewed it. Until then, we offer the fixed-fee advocate review.
Not offered: opening your vault after your death
Waseeyat does not give your executor or family access to your vault. After your death, only the record of your will and the scan of your signed will go to the people in step 9, unless the law requires more.
Start from what you need
Plain guides from our law library. Each one names its source: the Act, the section, and the date we read the official text.