Current through L. 2024, ch. 259
Section 14-2505 - Witnesses; requirements; definitionA. A person who is generally competent to be a witness may act as a witness to a will.B. For any will executed on or after October 1, 2019, unless the will is made self-proved as prescribed in section 14-2504 or 14-2519, a person may not act as a witness to a will if that person is a devisee under that will or is related by blood, marriage or adoption to a devisee under that will.C. For the purposes of this section, "devisee" means a person who is designated in the will to receive a devise or who is a beneficiary of a trust that is designated in the will to receive a devise.Amended by L. 2019, ch. 46,s. 3, eff. 8/27/2019.