AR HB1936

Amends Arkansas Code § 28-25-103 to define "material portions" as words identifying property being devised and "signature" as any mark intended to authenticate a document, including nicknames, marks, or initials.

Requires wills to be in writing and signed by the testator or signed in the testator's name at the testator's direction by someone in the testator's conscious presence, with at least two witness signatures within a reasonable time after witnessing the signing or acknowledgment.

Allows documents that do not comply with standard will execution requirements to be valid as holographic wills if the testator's signature and material portions are in the testator's handwriting.

Permits extrinsic evidence to establish a testator's intent for a document to constitute a will, including portions not in the testator's handwriting.

Repeals Arkansas Code § 28-25-104, which previously required holographic wills to be proved by at least three credible disinterested witnesses to the handwriting and signature.