Contract to make will or devise, revoke or not revoke will or devise, or to die intestate, how established
This law says that if someone made a promise after January 1, 1981 about what they would put in their will — or that they would or would not change their will — that promise can only be proven in one of three ways: the will itself describes the promise, the will mentions the promise and other written evidence shows what it said, or there is a separate signed paper from the deceased person showing the promise.
474.155. Contract to make will or , or not revoke will or devise, or to die , how established. — A contract to make a will or devise, to revoke or not to revoke a will or devise, or to die intestate, if after January 1, 1981, can be established only by
(1) of a will stating of the contract;
(2) An express reference in a will to a contract and proving the terms of the contract; or
(3) A writing signed by the evidencing the contract.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1980 S.B. 637) Effective 1-01-81
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