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Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instruction 26.05
Execution of a Holographic Will
The Contestant claims that the will is invalid because it was not written and signed in the way the law requires. In order to find that the will was written and signed in the way the law requires, you must decide that each of the following things is more likely true than not true:
(1) the parts of the Maker's will which dispose of [his] [her] property are in the Maker's handwriting; and
(2) the signature on the will is in the Maker's handwriting; and
(3) the Maker was at least eighteen (18) years old when [he] [she] made the will.
If you decide that each of these three things is more likely true than not true then you must find that the Maker made [his] [her] will in the way the law requires and [return a verdict for the Proponent] [decide some additional matters that I will explain to you]. If you decide that the any one of these requirements has not been satisfied, then you must return a verdict for the Contestant.
History
Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions 26.05, dated Revised 1995. Prepared by the Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions Committee; published by the Alaska Court System. The Alaska Court System states that these instructions "have not been approved or promulgated by any court or the Alaska Bar Association."
Provenance
- Source
- courts.alaska.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
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