If you are making a will or have been asked to sign as a witness on someone else’s will, there are a few things you should probably keep in mind so that your efforts to help someone do not go to waste and the will ends up not being used.
Make sure you sign the will in the presence of the person who made it. This will help you be in a position to tell court and the world whether it was that person who made the will and if it was done freely without any coercion.
Make sure you sign on every page. The new law requires witnesses to sign on each page of the will. If you do not do this, that unsigned page will be disregarded by courts of law and that means some wishes of the person who made the will may be disregarded.
Make sure you ask the person making the will who they intend to keep the copies of the will with so that you can point this out when the time comes for reading that will. If the person of course trusts you with a copy as a witness, make sure to keep the will safely and treat it with the greatest confidentiality until the day it must be opened.
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