NoticeConnect | Information Solutions for Wills & Estates

How it Works

The Canada Will Registry is where lawyers and firms register estate planning documents, manage their will vaults, and search for missing wills.

Powerful tools to keep your will vault organized

Data is private, secure, and stored in Canada

Over 320,000 wills already registered by law firms and individual testators

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Ensure that wills and codicils can be found when they’re needed.

Lawyers and firms register the estate planning documents in their will vault at no charge. Our system alerts your firm if someone searches for a will that you registered. We tell you who is searching and why. You decide whether or not to disclose the existence and location of the will.

No need to collect additional consent forms from clients

Individual testators can also register their own wills on CanadaWillRegistry.org for $40

Available Canada-wide

“The Canada Registry has been a great tool for us. I feel more confident now that persons looking for a deceased’s Will, will have a better chance of locating it. I was glad to give up our rudimentary excel spreadsheet index of the thousands of Wills in our firm’s vault and appreciate the standardized approach to indexing across all firms.”

Kavina Nagrani
Estate Lawyer at NIKA LAW LLP
Chair of the Canadian Bar Associations’ Elder Law Section for 2019-2020

“The Canada Will Registry solves a problem that Alberta Estate lawyers have been asking for - a wills registry that keeps people information confidential and alerts the law firm when someone searches the testator's name.”

Excerpt from “Drop the Mic: We have a Canada Wide Wills Registry!”
By Stacy Maurier, Estate Lawyer at Estate Connection

“NoticeConnect and the services you provide are truly a godsend! It has made estate administration so much easier.”

Alvin Leung
Lawyer at Erudite Law LLP

“NoticeConnect's Canada Will Registry is long overdue. Very easy to use to search for missing wills. Hopefully the days of reviewing lost will notices in the Ontario Reports are gone forever. I highly recommend it.”

Jordan Atin
Estate Lawyer at Hull & Hull LLP

“Not only does the Canada Will Registry eliminate the need for manual record checks, but as more wills are registered, NoticeConnect provides an efficient, secure and user-friendly way to take steps to determine the whereabouts of a will or reliably conclude that no will exists.”

Excerpt from “Digital Will Vault”
By Joanna Lindenberg, All About Estates

Manage Your Digital Will Vault

Tools to save time and stay organized

Once you’ve registered your estate planning documents on the Canada Will Registry, you can manage your records with your account. Our powerful will vault management tools save time and make it easy to stay organized.

Search, sort, and filter records

Access and update your records

Close old files

Transfer and receive records from other lawyers and firms

(ideal for when someone is retiring and winding down their practice)

Is your will vault managed with paper records, a Word file, or in a spreadsheet?

We can do the work to get you set up on the Canada Will Registry.

Search for Wills

Meaningful Due Diligence

How do you know if you have the most recent will? How do you know if a client was actually intestate? Searching the Canada Will Registry checks your request against over 320,000 registered wills. It's the most powerful step you can take to ensure that you have all the relevant documents.

1. You submit your Search Query to our system.

2. We send you a Search Certificate, which establishes that you did meaningful due diligence to check for outstanding wills.

3. If someone has a matching will, they will contact you within 30 days.

WE MATCH YOUR SEARCH TERMS AGAINST OUR DATABASE OF WILLS USING A PROPRIETARY ALGORITHM THAT ACCOUNTS FOR ALTERNATE NAME SPELLINGS, ACCENTS, AND SPECIAL CHARACTERS

Privacy and Security - Built to Meet the Needs of Professionals

Privacy

Firms have implicit consent from their clients to register existing wills. Read how, here
Only you have access to your data
Your data is stored and backed up exclusively in Canada
You’re protected by our privacy policy and supplemental agreement

Security

Your data is stored and backed up in the same secure data centres trusted by Canadian financial institutions and government
Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest
Server access is monitored and restricted