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MI HB5933
Bill
Status
7/21/2020
Primary Sponsor
Sarah Lightner
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AI Summary
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Allows any individual generally competent to be a witness to serve as a will witness, except as otherwise provided in the section.
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Signing of a will by an interested witness does not invalidate the will or any of its provisions.
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Prohibits non-devisees from acting as witnesses to a will; individuals who are devisees under the will cannot serve as witnesses.
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Voids any devise (bequest of real property) to a devisee who signs as a witness to the will.
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Makes these restrictions applicable only to wills executed after the effective date of this act, with wills executed before that date remaining unaffected.
Legislative Description
Probate: wills and estates; individuals eligible to witness a will; exclude devisees, and void devises to a devisee who witnesses a will. Amends sec. 2505 of 1998 PA 386 (MCL 700.2505).
Probate: wills and estates
Last Action
Bill Electronically Reproduced 07/21/2020
7/22/2020