Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 53. WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES · Chapter 4. WILLS · Article 2. TESTAMENTARY CAPACITY

53-4-10. Minimum age; conviction of crime.

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(a)
Every individual 14 years of age or older may make a will, unless laboring under some legal disability arising either from a want of capacity or a want of perfect liberty of action.#
(b)
An individual who has been convicted of a crime shall not be deprived of the power to make a will.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 53-4-10, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.

Cross references

Age of majority, § 39-1-1.

Law reviews

For article recommending more consistency in age requirements of laws pertaining to the welfare of minors, see 6 Ga. St. B.J. 189 (1969).

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