The legal document software would be worthless as far as helping organize your thoughts before seeing a lawyer. What it would do is allow you do draft your own docs, which may or may not hold up (execution and filing has a lot more to do oftentimes than wording of a particular instrument), but it will give you a pre-conceived notion about how something is to be done that may not be helpful when you see a lawyer.

I know a man who owns a national web-based legal form company($$$$$$$). He has one "lawyer" that works for him. The reason I put this in quotes, is because the guy that works for him was disbarred and that was the only job he could get and halfway use his degree.

Before anyone makes the "he just doesn't want $ taken out of his pocket" comment: I very rarely do the kind of work that you could do yourself with downloaded legal forms (wills, trusts, ect....). Also, I have never downloaded forms myself or looked at many of the online ones, so I don't have to much to offer on how good they are. However, I have represented probably 1/6 dozen people who have ****ed something up trying to do it themselves with downloaded forms, and had to fix the problems. In the long run it would have been cheaper for them to have hired someone competent in the first place.