New York and New Jersey • Free starting help • No account required
Organize the questions, people, property, documents, and official resources that matter before you sign, file, fund, transfer, or hire anyone.
Estate Law Aid is not a law firm. You get a clear starting path, device-saved preparation, and an honest choice about professional help.
Answer what you know. Keep missing facts visible. Leave with a practical next step.
For the public
Choose review preparation, comparison, will or trust drafting, official forms, guided preparation, or attorney-review preparation. Each path shows what is available and what remains closed.
Choose document helpFor attorneys and firms
Review a concise public tour, one real unclaimed profile, a synthetic document comparison, free claim and correction rights, and the central Smarter Justice continuation path.
Open the attorney tourFree core path
Issue routing, plain-language information, official-resource navigation, profile search, questions-and-unknowns preparation, basic organizers, correction/removal, privacy, and recovery do not require payment.
Fair use
External AI, OCR, large document processing, storage, or repeated high-cost use may later have a reasonable free allowance and an optional cost-recovery continuation. No such charge is active now.
Non-AI fallback
Deterministic routing, official resources, search, Document Help, checklists, questions, export, support, and recovery remain useful when AI is absent, paused, unavailable, or declined.
Free starting help
Describe what you need: a will, trust, update, probate, executor help, document review, or a professional-search path. Estate Law Aid shows a practical next step without treating it as legal advice.
Save names, dates, assets, beneficiaries, court papers, open questions, and downloadable summaries before deciding whether to pay for review.
Search public-source profiles by place and need, with source dates, unclaimed status, and correction options clearly shown.
One clear path
Estate Law Aid is built so a first visit can produce a useful starting summary, a document checklist, a saved matter, or a responsible professional-search path.
Organize people, assets, beneficiaries, fiduciaries, and draft choices before deciding what documents to prepare.
Plan aheadReview what changed after a move, marriage, divorce, death, new child, new property, or beneficiary change.
Update documentsSeparate probate, executor, administrator, court, asset, debt, creditor, and family questions before the next call.
Probate helpCompare sourced professional profiles and optional review paths without creating representation too early.
Find a professionalBuilt for real decisions
Start free, save a matter, gather copies, create draft outputs, and see what needs review before signing or filing anything.
Separate probate, executor, administrator, asset, debt, court, and beneficiary questions so the next conversation is calmer.
Receive better-organized inquiries and claim a profile without implying representation before conflicts, scope, and engagement are complete.
What users get before deciding on paid help
Answer what you know and keep missing facts visible as questions.
Name the matter, keep drafts and copy names together, and return later.
Print or download working summaries, checklists, and draft materials.
Self-guided use, organization help, preparation help, and attorney review stay separate.
What happens first
Planning, updating documents, handling an estate, or finding professional help.
Keep documents, people, assets, questions, and downloads together.
Self-guided tools, organization help, preparation help, and attorney review stay separate.
Not sure where to begin?
Use plain English. You can mention a will, trust, power of attorney, probate, an existing document, or a family change. Do not include full Social Security numbers, account numbers, or original documents.
What makes this useful
You can keep unknown details visible, download working files, and decide whether review is worth asking for.
Save names, dates, copies, questions, and concerns so professional conversations start with context.
Create working summaries, checklists, drafts, and review packages that show what is complete and what still needs attention.
Drafts are not final, filed, funded, notarized, transferred, or safe to sign unless the proper review and finalization steps are complete.
Estate Law Aid is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Attorney review begins only through a separate attorney engagement process.
Drafts and downloads are helpful working files, not final legal documents to sign unless the required review and finalization steps are completed.
The initial public focus is New York and New Jersey. Other states are handled as future rollout matters until reviewed and approved.
Before you pay for help
Estate Law Aid is designed to make the first step useful: organize your facts, name your matter, save your work, find relevant professionals, and keep draft, review, and finalization steps clearly separated.
Ready to begin?
You can save your answers, return later, create practical draft outputs, and decide whether optional review is worth requesting.
Find help responsibly
Estate Law Aid now supports approximate ZIP/radius search for public-source starter profiles. Use it to compare location and practice fit, then confirm credentials, availability, fees, conflicts, and engagement terms directly.
Current profile focus
Compare sourced profiles across Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Northern Metro New Jersey, and NYC-connected Connecticut while broader inherited coverage remains available.
View the three-market guideFree preparation tools
See added and removed lines with exact source-line references and changed date or amount signals.
Compare documentsReview name and role labels across a will, trust, powers of attorney, health-care directive, and beneficiary-designation notes.
Check consistencyOrganize goals, people, assets, documents, stated dates, professional questions, and comparison notes.
Build packetTrack versions, original or copy locations, user-entered status and follow-up questions without deciding legal validity.
Inventory documentsSort user-entered estate and probate events, flag missing dates, and prepare follow-up questions without calculating legal deadlines.
Organize timelineThese tools work in this browser. Nothing is uploaded, filed, legally evaluated, or sent.
Review device dataOne preparation sequence
Review available device-saved summaries, choose what belongs in your sequence, and add priorities, next steps, and questions. Original source text is not copied into the workbook.
Build Preparation WorkbookProfessional preparation
Bring compact results, goals, questions, and service preferences together before contacting a professional. Nothing is submitted automatically.
Prepare a Handoff PacketUse two new browser-local organizers to identify documents, roles, beneficiary or ownership questions, sources and follow-ups that may need professional review.
Digital-estate continuity
List services and digital assets, owners or roles, provider contact or recovery paths, separate instruction locations, source labels and follow-ups. Nothing is accessed or sent, and compact saves contain counts only.
Organize Digital Assets & AccessUse versioned guided forms, working drafts, metadata-only review preparation, a browser-local workspace, and a prepared-but-not-sent attorney-review package. Live upload, attorney delivery, execution, filing, funding, and confidential release remain separate gated steps.