Lawyers usually say no.

If we were advising with our own interests in mind, we would love people to do will kit wills....I usually have one or two messes in myfile cupboard that are due to a home made wills, and they make good money for lawyers. That might be why so many kit wills are published by $2 companies.

In truth, it is well worth doing wills properly,so you minimise the chance of having to do it again...do it once and do it well is an appropriate adage.

Your lawyer should obtain details about your assets, your superannuation and other financial resources, who is in your "family" in the broadest sense( to see if anyone could be eligible to challenge your will after your death, including whether anyone has been a member of you household and wholly or partly dependant on you, and to see what can be done to make the will challenge resistant), and then what you want to do.

You have to be careful of what Donald Rumsfeld once called "unknown unknowns"...thing you don't know about, and you are not aware that you don't know about them.