How to Create and Verify a Digital Will: Proving Authenticity with adeus True Wills

‍Protecting your wishes and proving they are genuine.

Making a will is one of the most important things you can do to protect your loved ones. However, a traditional paper will can be lost, damaged, or questioned in court, often at the hardest possible moment for the people you care about most.

adeus True Wills removes those risks entirely. Your will is stored as a secure, encrypted digital record that is permanently time-stamped, impossible to tamper with, and always retrievable.

In this guide, we walk you through two essential processes: how to upload your will to protect it with True Wills, and how to verify that a will is genuine and unchanged whenever proof is needed.

Read our full introduction to adeus True Wills.

Creating Your True Will: A Step-by-Step Guide

Protecting your legacy shouldn't be a bureaucratic hurdle. Uploading your will to adeus takes just a few minutes. Once stored, your document becomes a permanent, encrypted record, sealed at the point of upload with a tamper-proof timestamp.

The Secure Upload Process:

• Secure Upload: Easily upload your document to the adeus platform.

• Digital Sealing: Your will is immediately converted into a permanent, encrypted record.

• Tamper-Proof Timestamping: The system applies a unique timestamp to seal the document at the exact moment of upload.

• Permanent Preservation: No one can alter the document, and it can never be lost.

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Your wishes are preserved exactly as you set them out.

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Verifying a True Will: Providing Proof for Probate

Uncertainty about a will's authenticity is a distressing situation for families, particularly if it is challenged during probate. True Wills resolves this with a simple verification process that provides certified, documented proof that the will has not been altered since it was stored.

This proof can be presented in legal proceedings, giving executors and loved ones confidence at an already difficult time.

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Not just protection for you, but clarity for those you leave behind.

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Why It Matters: Solving the Vulnerabilities of Paper

Some of the most common reasons wills are contested in England and Wales relate to questions of authenticity, validity, and whether the document is the final version . adeus True Wills directly addresses all three:

• Authenticity: The encrypted record proves the will is genuine and unaltered.

• Validity: The permanent timestamp makes the most recent version clear beyond doubt.

• Security: A True Will cannot be misplaced, damaged, or destroyed.

Take the First Step

Creating and protecting your will is one of the most straightforward things you can do, and one of the most thoughtful. Creating your adeus account takes just a few minutes, and once your will is safely stored as a True Will, you can update it at any time as your life and circumstances change.

When you are ready, click Get Started at the top right of this page. Your loved ones will thank you for it.

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