75-2-504. Self-proved will.
(1) A will may be simultaneously executed, attested, and made self-proved, by
acknowledgment thereof 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,
whether or not that officer is also a witness to the will, 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 therein expressed, and that I am 18 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 [his] [her] will and that [he] [she] signs it willingly (or willingly directs another to
sign for [him] [her] ), 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
18 years of age or older, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue influence.
___________________
Witness
__________________
Witness
State of _______
County of _______
Subscribed, sworn to and acknowledged before me by _______, the testator, and
subscribed and sworn to before me by _______, and _______, witnesses, this ____ day of
_______.
(Signed) _______________
________________________
(Official capacity of officer)
(2) An attested will may be made self-proved at any time after its execution by the
acknowledgment thereof 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 _______
County of _______
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 [he] [she] had signed willingly (or willingly directed another to sign for
[him] [her] ), and that [he] [she] executed it as [his] [her] free and voluntary act for the purposes
therein expressed, 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 [his] [her] knowledge the testator was at that
time eighteen years or 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
_______.
(Signed) ___________________
___________________________
(Official capacity of officer)
(3) 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.
(4) The notarization of will provisions of this section preempt conflicting provisions in
other sections of the Utah Code whether the will was executed prior to or after July 1, 1998.
Repealed and Re-enacted by Chapter 39, 1998 General Session
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