Or, you could talk to a real lawyer and set up your assets exactly how you want for about twice that.

While you're at it, set up a durable power of attorney which is probably a lot more important than a will. This lets you select someone to legally take care of your health and financial decisions while you're alive but incapacitated.

But go ahead and get a form online. Just remember, you get what you pay for.

Yes, that sounds like a splendid idea. Go online and trust that some $8/hr. bozo working at a form-filling sweatshop will get it right. Never mind the fact that there are qualified and licensed attorneys out there who will do it for about the same price.

Maxim Magazine said in their issue last month to skip the online sites and get a lawyer, that way it eliminated a lot of chances for a mistake to be made that ties up the will in court for months.

Or - just look up your state's rules to see if you even want a will, or are ok with the default rules. State laws that determine where assets go without a will were written that way precisely because that's where most people would want them to go. My state's default rules ("All to spouse if married") work fine for me.

@rhombopteryx: The problem is that you may well outlive your spouse. This summer I say in on a case where a woman died without a will owning about $20k. Because many of her family members had passed away and because of the state default rules, the attorneys ended up making a massive family tree and some people ended up getting 1/168th. Had she had even a simple will, this would not have happened.