Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 53. WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES · Chapter 4. WILLS · Article 3. EXECUTION AND ATTESTATION

53-4-21. Knowledge of contents of will by testator.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Knowledge of the contents of a will by the testator is necessary to the validity of a will. If the testator can read, the testator’s signature or acknowledgment of that signature is presumed to show such knowledge.

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.

Code 1981, § 53-4-21, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.

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