Some topics are like fire. Stay close and you'll keep warm; get too close and you'll get burned. Wills are like that. Some Fools think you're best served using software or a book to draw up the document that dictates your final parting wishes as you leave the planet. Others think you'd be crazy not to hire a lawyer. Who's right? Let's take a look at both sides. Cheap and easy: Go with the software The primary advantage to software is that it's relatively cheap to use, automated, and produces a legally usable document in a matter of minutes. As one Fool from our Living Below Your Means discussion board puts it, the process can be "... simple and straightforward." That's true. Nolo Press has been publishing legal self-help books and forms since 1971. Intuit's Quicken line now includes WillMaker Plus.