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Alaska Statutes.

Title 13. Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts.

Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers

Section 504. Self-Proved Will.

AS 13.12.504. Self-Proved Will.

(a) A will may be simultaneously executed, attested, and made self-proved, by acknowledgment of the will by the testator and affidavits of the witnesses, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths under the laws of the state in which execution occurs and evidenced by the officer's certificate, under official seal, in substantially the following form:

I, __________, the testator, sign my name to this instrument this ________ day      

 of ________, and being first duly sworn, do hereby declare to the     

undersigned authority that I sign and execute this instrument as my

will and that I sign it willingly (or willingly direct another to sign

for me), that I execute it as my free and voluntary act for the

purposes expressed in the will, and that I am eighteen years of age or

older, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue influence.      

                    ______________________________                     Testator                                           

We, __________, __________, the witnesses, sign our names to this instrument, being first          

duly sworn, and do hereby declare to the undersigned authority that the

testator signs and executes this instrument as the testator's will and

that the testator signs it willingly (or willingly directs another to

sign for the testator), and that each of us, in the presence and

 hearing of the testator, hereby signs this will as witness to the     

testator's signing, and that to the best of our knowledge the testator

is eighteen years of age or older, of sound mind, and under no         

constraint or undue influence.                                         

                    ______________________________                     Witness                                            

                    ______________________________                     Witness                                            

State of __________                                                    

________________________ Judicial District                             

Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged before me by __________,     

the testator, and subscribed and sworn to before me by __________, and __________, witness, this                              

________ day of ________.                                              

(Seal)                                                                 

                    ______________________________                     (Signed)                                           

                    ______________________________                     (Official capacity of officer)                     

(b) An attested will may be made self-proved at any time after its execution by the acknowledgment of the will by the testator and the affidavits of the witnesses, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths under the laws of the state in which the acknowledgment occurs and evidenced by the officer's certificate, under the official seal, attached or annexed to the will in substantially the following form:

State of __________                                                    

________________________ Judicial District                             

We, __________, __________, and __________, the testator and the witnesses, respectively, whose                    

names are signed to the attached or foregoing instrument, being first

duly sworn, do hereby declare to the undersigned authority that the

testator signed and executed the instrument as the testator's will and

that the testator had signed willingly (or willingly directed another

to sign for the testator), and that the testator executed it as the

testator's free and voluntary act for the purposes expressed in the

will, and that each of the witnesses, in the presence and hearing of

the testator, signed the will as witness and that to the best of the

witnesses' knowledge the testator was at that time eighteen years of

 age or older, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue         

influence.                                                             

                    ______________________________                     Testator                                           

                    ______________________________                     Witness                                            

                    ______________________________                     Witness                                            

Subscribed, sworn to and acknowledged before me by __________ ,        

the testator, and subscribed and sworn to before me by __________, and ________, witnesses, this                                          

________ day of ________.                                              

(Seal)                                                                 

                    ______________________________                     (Signed)                                           

                    ______________________________                     (Official capacity of officer)                     

(c) A signature affixed to a self-proving affidavit attached to a will is considered a signature affixed to the will, if necessary to prove the will's due execution.

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