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handle is hein.ali/retpwodt9942 and id is 1 raw text is: PROPERTY 3D: WILLS AND OTHER DONATIVE TRANSFERS DIVISION I. PROBATE TRANSFERS (WILLS AND INTESTACY) CHAPTER 3. EXECUTION OF WILLS PART A. EXECUTION FORMALITIES § 3.1 Attested Wills Alaska, 2016. Com. (j) quot. in sup. and cit. in ftn. After decedent's daughter petitioned for formal probate of a holographic will, decedent's grandchildren opposed the petition, claiming that decedent's handwritten name at the beginning of the document was not a signature as required for it to be considered a valid will under Alaska's holographic-will statute. The trial court granted partial summary judgment for daughter, finding that a terminal signature was not required. Affirming, this court held that a testator's handwritten name in the exordium clause of a holographic will was sufficient to satisfy the statute's signature requirement unless the instrument was otherwise incomplete. The court noted that the majority of states with statutes like Alaska's, which did not specify the location of the signature, had declined to read the signature requirement as implicitly requiring a terminal signature, consistent with Restatement Third of Property: Wills & Other Donative Transfers § 3.1. Matter of Estate of Baker, 386 P.3d 1228, 1234. § 3.2 Holographic Wills Alaska, 2016. Cit. in ftn. After decedent's daughter petitioned for formal probate of a holographic will, decedent's grandchildren opposed the petition, claiming that decedent's handwritten name at the beginning of the document was not a signature as required for it to be considered a valid will under Alaska's holographic-will statute. The trial court granted partial summary judgment for daughter, finding that a terminal signature was not required. Affirming, this court held that a testator's handwritten name in the exordium clause of a holographic will was sufficient to satisfy the statute's signature requirement unless the instrument was otherwise incomplete. The court noted that, under Restatement Third of Property: Wills & Other Donative Transfers § 3.2, every American holographic-will statute required the testator to sign the will, and that the majority of states with statutes like Alaska's, which did not specify the location of the signature, had declined to read the signature requirement as implicitly requiring a terminal signature. Matter of Estate of Baker, 386 P.3d 1228, 1232. DIVISION III. PROTECTIVE DOCTRINES For earlier citations, see the Appendices, Supplements, or Pocket Parts, if any, that correspond to the subject matter under examination.

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