What to Expect

Step 1: Sign up and choose how to start

Fill out the short interest form. You can go through the online portal on your own, or ask a helper to call you and help you with it. Both ways lead to the same free help.

Step 2: Tell us about your situation

In the portal, answer questions about your family, your home, the things you own and your health care wishes. Then we'll send you some resources to read.

Step 3: Meet your Law Librarian

When you’ve read the resources, let us know in the portal that you’re ready. It will ask you to contact your county Law Library to meet with a Law Librarian. You’ll talk about your situation and which documents might fit your life. Your librarian may send more resources after you talk.

Step 4: Choose and fill out your forms

Pick the forms you want, and your librarian will send them to you. Fill them out on your own, or ask a helper to type them up with you. Don't sign them yet.

Step 5: Get your forms checked

Upload your finished forms. Your librarian checks that nothing is missing. They don't check whether your answers are right. That's the lawyer's job.

Step 6: Meet with a lawyer, for free

First, you fill out a short form so the lawyer can make sure there's no conflict of interest. Then the lawyer reviews your forms and meets with you for about an hour to go over them and answer your questions.

Step 7: Finish your plan

If anything needs to change, your librarian helps you update your forms. Then you sign your documents, with a notary or witnesses if needed, and learn how to keep them safe. Your plan is done!