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- LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
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- I, [NAME], also known as [NICKNAME], a resident of [COUNTY] County,
- [STATE], being over the age of eighteen years, and being of sound
- mind and memory, revoke any prior Wills and Codicils made by me and
- declare this to be my Last Will and Testament.
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- 1. I direct that all estate, inheritance and other taxes
- payable by reason of my death on any property included in my estate
- for tax purposes, shall be paid as an expense of administration
- without contribution from any person without apportionment.
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- 2. I give all my personal and household effects as follows:
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- 3. I make the following specific devises:
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- 4. I give my entire residuary estate as follows:
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- 5. I appoint [NAME] as my Executor to serve without bond. It
- is my intention that the probate of my estate be conducted as an
- administrative, not a judicial, proceeding under the probate code.
- I, therefore, direct informal probate of my Will, informal
- appointment of my Executor, unsupervised administration of my
- estate, and informal closing of my estate by sworn closing statement
- of my Executor, unless changed circumstances necessitate formal or
- supervised judicial proceedings for the protection of persons
- interested in my estate.
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- I, [NAME], the testator/testatrix, sign my name to this
- instrument this XX day of [MONTH], 19XX, and being first duly sworn,
- do hereby declare to the undersigned authority that I sign and
- execute this instrument as my last 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 therein expressed and that I
- am eighteen years of age or older, of sound mind, and under no
- constraint or undue influence.
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- ___________________________________
- Testator/Testatrix
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- We, [NAMES], the witnesses, sign our names to this instrument,
- being first duly sworn, and do hereby declare to the undersigned
- that the testator/testatrix signs and executes this instrument as
- his/her last Will and that he/she signs it willingly (or willingly
- directs another to sign for him/her), and that he/she executes it as
- his/her free and voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed,
- and that each of us, in the presence and hearing of the
- testator/testatrix hereby signs this Will as witness to the
- testator's/testatrix's signing, and that to the best of his/her
- knowledge the testator/testatrix is eighteen years of age or older,
- of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue influence.
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- Witness Witness
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- Notary Seal
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