2006 Minnesota Statutes

524.2-504 SELF-PROVED WILL.
(a) A will may be contemporaneously executed, attested, and made self-proved, by
acknowledgment thereof 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 therein expressed, and that I am 18 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 18 years of age or older, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue influence.

		Witness
		Witness

State of

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County of

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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)

(b) An attested will may be made self-proved at any time after its execution by the
acknowledgment thereof 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

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County of

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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 therein expressed, and each of the witnesses, in the presence and hearing of the testator,
signed the will as witness and that to the best of the witness' knowledge the testator was at the
time 18 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.
History: 1975 c 347 s 22; 1979 c 240 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 472 s 37