Guides
Draft it here, in the place it is for.
Answer the questions and the document is composed for the jurisdiction you chose — the governing-law wording, the execution conventions, and whether the paper owes stamp duty where you are. 11 documents, 15 jurisdictions, and nothing leaves your browser.
General information, not legal advice. Rutba is not a law firm.
The wizard
Three choices and a set of questions
Where the document is for, which document it is, and then the questions that make it. Every option is offered; none is chosen for you.
Step 1 of 3
It decides the list. A document is drafted against a place’s own conventions — how the governing-law clause is phrased, whether instruments there attract stamp duty, what is normally witnessed — so one that has not been written for a place is not offered there.
15 places are written for. A document that has not been written for one is not offered there.
What this is, and is not
A starting point you drive
Being precise about this matters more here than anywhere else on the site.
You answer; the document composes
Nothing here selects a term for you. Where a choice matters — who owns what is produced, whether liability is capped, how long confidentiality lasts — the wizard asks and offers the options in plain words, with nothing preselected. What the document does not cover is yours to add.
Written for a place, or not offered
A document written for one jurisdiction and used in another is a document with the wrong governing law, the wrong execution block and, in several places, an unpaid stamp duty that makes it inadmissible. So a document that has not been written for a jurisdiction is not offered there, rather than offered with a caveat.
That is why the wizard covers fifteen places while the formalities guide names nineteen: the four civil-law regimes it leaves out — Germany, France, Spain and Italy — draft and execute differently enough (notarial deeds, language requirements) that a common-law document with the country name changed would be worse than nothing.
Refused means paper, not pretence
Where the kind of document cannot be executed electronically — a will, a marriage instrument, a deed under English law — the wizard still drafts it, and then tells you to print it and sign it in front of the people the law wants in the room. It never quietly produces an envelope instead.
Your answers are not sent or stored
The draft is composed in your browser. This site has no account, no session and no connection to the signing engine; nothing you type — names, addresses, sums, the terms you choose — is transmitted or kept. Sending the document for signature — with the parties, the evidence and the seal — is what an account does.
Two things do reach us, because they are in the address bar: which place you chose and which document. They are there so the wizard works without JavaScript and so you can bookmark or share where you are. Nothing you answer ever joins them.
What is not here yet Wills are the document people most often ask about and the one this wizard deliberately does not offer. A badly composed contract is a commercial argument; a badly composed will is discovered when its author cannot be asked what they meant. They come last, print-only, and only in jurisdictions a lawyer has read the pack for — the same posture the rest of this product takes when it does not know something. Until then, the guide on wills says what one needs to be valid.