Alaska Stat. § 13.12.915

Current through Chapter 61 of the 2024 Legislative Session and 2024 Executive Orders 125, 133 through 135
Section 13.12.915 - International will; certificate

The authorized person shall attach to the international will a certificate to be signed by the authorized person establishing that the requirements of AS 13.12.912 - 13.12.921 for valid execution of an international will have been complied with. The authorized person shall keep a copy of the certificate and deliver another to the testator. The certificate shall be substantially in the following form:

CERTIFICATE

(Convention of October 26, 1973)

1. I, ________ (name, address, and capacity), a person authorized to act in connection with international wills
2. certify that on ________ (date) at ________ (place)
3. (testator) ________ (name, address, date, and place of birth) in my presence and that of the witnesses
4.
(a) ________ (name, address, date, and place of birth)
(b) ________ (name, address, date, and place of birth) has declared that the attached document is the testator's will and that the testator knows the contents of the will;
5. I furthermore certify that:
6.
(a) in my presence and in that of the witnesses
(1) the testator has signed the will or has acknowledged the testator's signature previously affixed.
(2)* following a declaration of the testator stating that the testator was unable to sign the testator's will for the following reason ________, I have mentioned this declaration on the will *and the signature has been affixed by ________ (name and address)
7.
(b) the witnesses and I have signed the will;
8.
(c)* each page of the will has been signed by ________ and numbered;
9.
(d) I have satisfied myself as to the identity of the testator and of the witnesses as designated above;
10.
(e) the witnesses met the conditions requisite to act as witnesses according to the law under which I am acting;
11.
(f)* the testator has requested me to include the following statement concerning the safekeeping of the testator's will:

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

12. PLACE OF EXECUTION
13. DATE
14. SIGNATURE and, if necessary, SEAL

* to be completed if appropriate.

AS 13.12.915