Alaska Statutes: AS 13.12.504. Self-Proved Will.

Alaska Statutes. Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, and Trusts. Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers Section 504. Self-Proved Will.

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AS 13.12.504. Self-Proved Will.

(a) A will may be simultaneously executed, attested, and made self-proved, by acknowledgment of the will by the testator and affidavits of the witnesses, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths under the laws of the state in which execution occurs and evidenced by the officer's certificate, under official seal, in substantially the following form:

I, ____________________________________________, the testator, sign my name to this instrument this

______________ day of _____________, and being first duly sworn, do hereby declare to the undersigned

authority that I sign and execute this instrument as my will and that I sign it willingly (or willingly

direct another to sign for me), that I execute it as my free and voluntary act for the purposes

expressed in the will, and that I am eighteen years of age or older, of sound mind, and under no

constraint or undue influence.

_________________________________________

        Testator

We, ________________________________________________, ________________________________________________,

the witnesses, sign our names to this instrument, being first duly sworn, and do hereby declare to

the undersigned authority that the testator signs and executes this instrument as the testator's will

and that the testator signs it willingly (or willingly directs another to sign for the testator), and that

each of us, in the presence and hearing of the testator, hereby signs this will as witness to the

testator's signing, and that to the best of our knowledge the testator is eighteen years of age or

older, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue influence.

                    ______________________________                     Witness

                    ______________________________                     Witness

State of __________

________________________ Judicial District

Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged before me by _________________________________________________________,

the testator, and subscribed and sworn to before me by ________________________, and ________________________, witness, this

________ day of ________.

(Seal)

                    ______________________________                     (Signed)

                    ______________________________                     (Official capacity of officer)

(b) An attested will may be made self-proved at any time after its execution by the acknowledgment of the will by the testator and the affidavits of the witnesses, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths under the laws of the state in which the acknowledgment occurs and evidenced by the officer's certificate, under the official seal, attached or annexed to the will in substantially the following form:

State of __________

________________________ Judicial District

We, ________________________________________________, ________________________________________________,

and __________, the testator and the witnesses, respectively, whose names

are signed to the attached or foregoing instrument, being first duly sworn, do hereby declare to the

undersigned authority that the testator signed and executed the instrument as the testator's will and

that the testator had signed willingly (or willingly directed another to sign for the testator), and

that the testator executed it as the testator's free and voluntary act for the purposes expressed in

the will, and that each of the witnesses, in the presence and hearing of the testator, signed the will

as witness and that to the best of the witnesses' knowledge the testator was at that time eighteen

years of age or older, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue influence.

                    ______________________________                     Testator

                    ______________________________                     Witness

                    ______________________________                     Witness

Subscribed, sworn to and acknowledged before me by ________________________________________ ,

the testator, and subscribed and sworn to before me by __________, and ________, witnesses, this

________ day of ________.

(Seal)

                    ______________________________                     (Signed)

                    ______________________________                     (Official capacity of officer)

(c) A signature affixed to a self-proving affidavit attached to a will is considered a signature affixed to the will, if necessary to prove the will's due execution.

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