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2000 Florida Code
TITLE XLII ESTATES AND TRUSTS
Chapter 732 Probate Code: Intestate Succession And Wills  
PART V WILLS (ss. 732.501-732.518)
732.503   Self-proof of will.

732.503  Self-proof of will.--A will or codicil executed in conformity with s. 732.502(1) and (2) may be made self-proved at the time of its execution or at any subsequent date by the acknowledgment of it by the testator and the affidavits of the witnesses, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths and evidenced by the officer's certificate attached to or following the will, in substantially the following form:

STATE OF _____
COUNTY OF _____

We, _____, _____, and _____ the testator and the witnesses, respectively, whose names are signed to the attached or foregoing instrument, having been sworn, declared to the undersigned officer that the testator, in the presence of witnesses, signed the instrument as the testator's last will (codicil), that the testator (signed) (or directed another to sign for him or her), and that each of the witnesses, in the presence of the testator and in the presence of each other, signed the will as a witness.

 (Testator) 


 (Witness) 


 (Witness) 

Subscribed and sworn to before me by _____, the testator who is personally known to me or who has produced  (type of identification)  as identification, and by _____, a witness who is personally known to me or who has produced  (type of identification)  as identification, and by _____, a witness who is personally known to me or who has produced  (type of identification)  as identification, on _____,  (year) .

 (Signature of Notary Public) 


 (Print, type, or stamp commissioned name of Notary Public) 

History.--s. 1, ch. 74-106; s. 21, ch. 75-220; s. 12, ch. 77-87; s. 8, ch. 93-62; s. 962, ch. 97-102; s. 18, ch. 98-246.

Note.--Created from former s. 731.071.

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