How we are different
Most UK will services hand you a PDF and end the relationship there. Trusted Hands is built around a simple fact: a will on its own is rarely enough. Your executors need to know it exists, where to find it, and what other documents go with it. Here is how we do that.
Other UK will writers - including respected high-street brands - produce excellent wills. What they don't always include is the wiring around the will. The Family Vault, the Executor Notification Service, the secure portal that unlocks when the time comes - the parts that make sure the document actually does its job. That is the gap Trusted Hands was built to close.
Private & protected
The single thing that worries most people about leaving their affairs in someone else's hands is the loss of privacy. Trusted Hands is designed around that worry. Your executors can see they've been appointed - and nothing else. The vault, the will, the documents you've left for your family stay completely sealed until the moment they're needed.
“The people you trust shouldn't have to search drawers to honour your wishes. And they shouldn't be able to see them before you're ready either. Trusted Hands is built for both.”
Side-by-side
Two wills, equally well drafted, can end up doing very different jobs depending on what surrounds them. Here is the side-by-side.
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Five short reads on why writing the will is only half the job - and what changes when the rest of the job is done too.
Most lost wills aren't deliberately hidden - they're filed somewhere safe and quietly forgotten. Here's why that goes wrong, and what a will tied to a vault and executor notification service does differently.
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Signing the will is a milestone - but it's only one of five things a complete legacy plan covers. Here's the other four, why people skip them, and what goes wrong when they do.
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Most people choose their executors and never tell them what the job involves. Here's the plain-English brief - what they need to know, and what you can do today to make their job manageable.
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A will is a snapshot, not a permanent record. Most UK wills are five-plus years out of date. Why an updateable will should be the default in 2026 - and when a one-off will is still the right call.
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Missing documents create real, specific costs - unclaimed insurance, frozen accounts, intestate estates, funerals decided by guesswork. Here's what goes wrong, and a two-hour weekend fix.
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It is one thing to say "we hold your documents and notify your executors" - quite another to show how. Each of these is a real, working part of the service, not marketing copy.
Every will produced is structured to comply with the Wills Act 1837 for England & Wales. Guided Witness Mode walks you step-by-step through signing: two adult witnesses present at the same time, neither a beneficiary, both signing in your presence.
Files in the Family Vault are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM - the same standard used to protect classified data. UK-hosted servers, UK GDPR compliant, every download logged.
Executors are appointed in the will and emailed automatically when it's paid for. They can't open the portal until death is confirmed with documentation and Trusted Hands has verified it.
Plain-English screenshots of the builder, the inheritance preview, the witness walkthrough, and the executor portal - so you know exactly what you (and your executors) will see.
Free to start, paid at download. From £49 for a single will. The Family Vault and Executor Notification Service are included with the Annual Subscription with Family Vault.
