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Is a self-written will legal in Nevada?
Yes. Nevada recognizes wills you write yourself, as long as they meet the state's signing requirements. The governing statute is Nev. Rev. Stat. §133.020 et seq.
Your will needs to be in writing, signed by you, and witnessed by 2 adults. You don't need a notary for the will itself to be valid, but adding a notarized "self-proving" affidavit makes the probate process faster later (this tool generates that for you automatically). Nevada also recognizes handwritten ("holographic") wills, written entirely in your own handwriting and signed.
You must be at least 18 years old and of sound mind. Choose witnesses who don't inherit under your will: some states void or reduce a gift to a witness, and the exact Nevada rule is covered below. This tool walks you through the rules so you don't trip over them.
A will you write yourself has the same legal force as one drafted by an attorney, provided you follow the signing rules. Courts admit self-written wills to probate every day. An attorney's value is in advising on complex estates, not in drafting the document itself.
What it costs to make a will in Nevada
A Nevada estate-planning attorney typically charges $300 to $600 for a simple will, and $1,000 to $1,500 for a will-plus-revocable-trust package. Rates run higher in dense metros and lower in rural areas. Most attorneys bill at $250 to $400 per hour and need one or two meetings to draft a basic will.
You can also write a will entirely from scratch with a sheet of paper and a pen, with no software at all. Nevada requires the same 2-witness signing process regardless of who drafts the document. The risk with a from-scratch will is technical: a missing self-proving affidavit, a witness who's also a beneficiary, or wording that creates ambiguity for the probate court. That's what this tool prevents.
Will.com is free at the document level. The $29/year subscription adds cloud-stored, zero-knowledge-encrypted access so you can edit and update your plan as life changes.
Nevada will requirements at a glance
How it works
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Download your will
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Sign with witnesses
Print and sign in front of 2 adult witnesses. Keep the signed copy somewhere safe.
When you might want an attorney instead
An online will works for most people. It's the right tool when your situation is straightforward: you want to leave your assets to family or friends, you don't have complex tax issues, and you're not anticipating a fight over your estate.
Consider hiring an attorney if any of these apply:
- Your estate is large enough to trigger federal estate tax (over $15 million in 2026) or Nevada estate or inheritance tax.
- You own a business, complex investments, or assets in multiple states or countries.
- You're in a blended family, especially if you want to leave assets to a current spouse while protecting children from a prior relationship.
- You have a child or beneficiary with special needs and want a supplemental-needs trust that won't disqualify them from public benefits.
- You expect someone to contest the will, or you're disinheriting a close family member.
- You have substantial retirement accounts and want sophisticated beneficiary planning.
If none of these apply, an online will is genuinely fine. The legal validity of your will doesn't depend on who drafted it, only on whether Nevada's signing rules were followed.
Self-proving affidavit in Nevada
Nevada recognizes self-proving affidavits. Will.com attaches one to your will: a short statement your witnesses sign in front of a notary, swearing to what they saw when you signed. See Nev. Rev. Stat. §133.050.
A self-proven will skips the requirement to track down witnesses years later for the probate court. It's optional, but adding the affidavit at signing time saves your executor work. Will.com generates the affidavit alongside the will.
Who can witness your will in Nevada
Nev. Rev. Stat. §133.060: all devises in a will to a subscribing witness are void unless there are two other competent subscribing witnesses to the will, and the statute contains no clause saving an intestate share. Practical effect on a two-witness Nevada will: an interested witness leaves only one other subscribing witness, so every devise to that witness fails while the rest of the will stands.
Family changes after you sign
A child born or adopted after the will. A child who arrives after you sign, and who isn't named or accounted for in the will, is covered by Nevada law rather than by your wishes. The safest practice is to update your will when your family changes.
Nev. Rev. Stat. §133.160, §133.170 and §133.180: Nevada protects two classes of child under different rules, and the difference decides most cases. Under §133.160 a child born after the will was made, for whom the will makes no provision, takes the same share of the estate as if the testator had died intestate, unless it is apparent from the will that the testator intended that no provision be made for that child, or the testator provided for the child by a transfer of property outside the will and it appears the transfer was intended in lieu of a testamentary provision; the remaining provisions of the will stay intact so far as they are not inconsistent with that share, including any appointment of a personal representative (§133.160(2)). Under §133.170 the rule runs the other way: where a child of the testator, or the issue of a deceased child, is omitted from the will, the omission is presumed to be intentional, and the child or issue takes an intestate share only if the court finds that the omission was unintentional. The burden there is on the omitted child, not on the estate. A share assigned under either section is taken first from estate not disposed of by the will, and if that is not sufficient, from all the devisees in proportion to what they respectively receive, unless the obvious intention of the testator as to a specific devise or other provision would thereby be defeated, in which case that devise or provision may be exempted and a different apportionment consistent with the testator's intention adopted (§133.180).
A spouse you married after signing. Updating the will after marriage avoids relying on whatever Nevada law provides by default.
Nev. Rev. Stat. §133.110: if a person marries after making a will and the spouse survives the maker, the will is revoked as to the spouse, and the spouse is then entitled to the same share of the estate as if the deceased spouse had died intestate (§133.110(2)(a)). The remaining provisions of the will stay intact so far as they are not inconsistent with that share, including any provision appointing a personal representative (§133.110(2)(b)), so this is a partial revocation and not the loss of the whole will. Three things prevent it: provision has been made for the spouse by marriage contract; the spouse is provided for in the will, or is mentioned in it in such a way as to show an intention not to make provision, which a reference in the will to a future spouse by name will satisfy; or the spouse is provided for by a transfer of property outside the will and it appears the maker intended the transfer to be in lieu of a testamentary provision.
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