Attorneys also use software/canned verbiage.
I am contemplating the same issue. I would use software. If you want additional peace of mind, hire an attorney to review it
My estate is simple also in terms of heirs/baggage.
Sounds reasonable, but from what I've heard, it may be hard to find someone to take that job.
A) They want to charge the full amount.
B) If they pick up something else, they have to check it, and are then responsible for something that they may not be 100% familiar with - back to A if they are going to do that much work.
I can sort of understand - I've seen plenty of cases in programming where it seemed easier to start from scratch than to try to figure out what someone else wrote. But this'll give me another opportunity to get on my soap-box:
Most of these wills/trusts are written with a family member or friend as the executor/trustee. Well, then they sure ought to be written so a lay person can understand them, but as some of us have found, the lawyer who wrote it (or at least signed off and is responsible for it, if some software spit it out), can't even explain it. That's just not right.
Once you dig through a basic will and basic trust, there's really not much to it. There is no reason for it to not be concise (a few pages) and readable and understandable by just about anyone who you would name executor/trustee.
The documents my MIL/FIL got had all sorts of fluff/filler, I think just to be-dazzle clients. There was the usual statement about prudent investing of the assets in the trust, but then there was about a page and a half about how they could, at their option, invest in some obscure conservation trust or something. I never heard of this, and my MIL/FIL never invested in anything complex, so it was just ridiculous to have it in there. When I asked the lawyers about it, I got a 'bla-bbla-standard language' non-answer (IOW, the software spit it out, and they had no idea what it meant).
I was PO'd but bit my tongue as it was my MIL's lawyer, I was just trying to help her and DW, so I had to pick my battles. And after they throw in this fluff, they actually screwed up an important part. I explained to one of the lawyers, she told me I was wrong (but not why), when we met with the primary lawyer, he agreed with me, and corrected it. And my MIL is paying for this? When a lay person points out their errors? OK, at one point one of them looked at me and said "You're an engineer, aren't you?" I laughed it off, but man was I tempted to give them a piece of my mind, about why someone with an engineering degree and no experience in their field can find problems with documents that someone with a JD and years of specialization got wrong. Argggghhhhh!
It really left a bad taste in my mouth for these Estate Attorneys. And this was not some fly-by-night place. A long standing practice in an upscale clientèle area.
-ERD50