2021 Georgia Code
Title 53 - Wills, Trusts, and Administration of Estates
Chapter 4 - Wills
Article 4 - Joint or Mutual Wills
§ 53-4-31. Definitions
- A joint will is one will signed by two or more testators that deals with the distribution of the property of each testator. A joint will may be probated as each testator's will.
- Mutual wills are separate wills of two or more testators that make reciprocal dispositions of each testator's property.
(Code 1981, §53-4-31, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.)
Law reviews.- For article advocating restructuring or repeal of former Code 1933, § 113-104, see 11 Ga. L. Rev. 297 (1977). For annual survey of wills, trusts, guardianships, and fiduciary administration, see 58 Mercer L. Rev. 423 (2006). For comment on Webb v. Smith, 220 Ga. 809, 141 S.E.2d 899 (1965), see 2 Ga. St. B.J. 258 (1965).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 79 Am. Jur. 2d, Wills, § 670.
C.J.S.- 97 C.J.S., Wills, §§ 2026, 2027, 2029 et seq.
ALR.
- Right to revoke will executed pursuant to contract, 3 A.L.R. 172.
Right of beneficiary to enforce contract between third persons to provide for him by will, 33 A.L.R. 739; 73 A.L.R. 1395.
Inequality of estates as affecting joint and mutual wills, 148 A.L.R. 756.
Joint, mutual, and reciprocal wills, 169 A.L.R. 9.
Right of party to joint or mutual will, made pursuant to agreement as to disposition of property at death, to dispose of such property during life, 85 A.L.R.3d 8.
