§ 64.1-87.2. Same; alternate method
A will, at the time of its execution or at any subsequent date, may be made self-proved by the acknowledgment thereof by the testator and the attesting witnesses, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths under the laws of the Commonwealth, or the laws of the state where the acknowledgment occurred or before an officer of the foreign service of the United States, a consular agent, or any other person authorized by regulation of the United States Department of State to perform notarial acts in the place in which the act is performed, and evidenced by the officer's certificate, attached or annexed to the will. The officer's certificate shall be substantially as follows in form and content:
STATE OF VIRGINIA
CITY/COUNTY OF ............
Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared
.........., .........., and .........., known to me to be the testator and
the witnesses, respectively whose names are signed to the attached or
foregoing instrument and, all of these persons being by me first duly sworn,
.........., the testator, declared to me and to the witnesses in my presence
that said instrument is his last will and testament and that he had willingly
signed or directed another to sign the same for him, and executed it in the
presence of said witnesses as his free and voluntary act for the purposes
therein expressed, that said witnesses stated before me that the foregoing
will was executed and acknowledged by the testator as his last will and
testament in the presence of said witnesses who in his presence and at his
request and in the presence of each other did subscribe their names thereto as
attesting witnesses on the day of the date of said will and that the
testator, at the time of the execution of said will, was over the age of
eighteen years and of sound and disposing mind and memory.
Sworn and acknowledged before me by ........, the testator, and .........
and .........., witnesses, this .... day of ........ A.D., .......
SIGNED ....................
....................
(OFFICIAL CAPACITY OF OFFICER)
(1983, c. 83; 1985, c. 429; 1990, c. 64.)
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