§ 64.2-437 Certificate
The authorized person shall attach to the will a certificate to be signed by him establishing that the requirements of this article for valid execution of an international will have been complied with. The authorized person shall keep a copy of the certificate and deliver another to the testator. The certificate shall be substantially in the following form:
CERTIFICATE
(Convention of October 26, 1973)
I,…………….… (name, address and capacity), a person authorized to act in connection with international wills Certify that on…………..…(date)…………… (place) (testator)……………………… (name, address, date and place of birth)in my presence and that of the witnesses (a)……………………..… (name, address, date and place of birth) (b)……………………..… (name, address, date and place of birth) has declared that the attached document is his will and that he knows the contents thereof.
I furthermore certify that:
1. the testator has signed the will or has acknowledged his signature previously affixed. *(2) following a declaration of the testator stating that he was unable to sign his will for the following reason ……………………..… I have mentioned this declaration on the will *and the signature has been affixed by (name and address)
b. the witnesses and I have signed the will; *(c) each page of the will has been signed by ……………………..… and numbered;
d. I have satisfied myself as to the identity of the testator and of the witnesses as designated above;
e. the witnesses met the conditions requisite to act as such according to the law under which I am acting;
f. the testator has requested me to include the following statement
concerning the safekeeping of his will:
PLACE OF EXECUTION DATE SIGNATURE and, if necessary, SEAL.
* to be completed if appropriate
History
This law was first created in 1995. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 443 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2012, chapter 614.
1995, c. 443, § 64.1-96.6; 2012, c. 614.