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Can a handwritten will be valid if someone else wrote it? | NC
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Q: Can a handwritten will be valid if someone else wrote it and the deceased only signed it? A: Usually no... not as a holographic will. For that kind of will, the entire document must be in the deceased person's own handwriting, and they must sign it. If someone else wrote the words, the signature alone usually is not enough. But the document could still be valid as a regular written will if…