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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 53. WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES · Chapter 4. WILLS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

53-4-4. Incorporation of extrinsic documents into will.

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

  1. (a)

    Any writing in existence when a will is executed may be incorporated into the will by reference if the language of the will manifests this intent and describes the writing sufficiently to permit its identification.#

  2. (b)

    This Code section shall not be construed to imply that the common law does not permit the incorporation of an extrinsic document into a will by reference in the manner authorized under subsection (a) of this Code section.#

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, § 53-4-4, enacted by Ga. L. 2020, p. 377, § 1-13/HB 865.

Effective date

This Code section became effective January 1, 2021.

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

Text read from t52-t53-(v40)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V40, 2021 edition, pages 336 to 337; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 062775612dfc.