2016 Maryland Code
Estates and Trusts
Title 4 - Wills
Subtitle 6 - Maryland International Wills Act
§ 4-605. Certificate

(a) Attachment. -- An authorized person shall attach to the will a certificate to be signed by the authorized person establishing that the requirements for valid execution of an international will have been met.

(b) Keeping and delivery of copy. -- The authorized person shall keep a copy of the certificate and deliver a copy to the testator.

(c) Form. -- A certificate under this section 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) at

(place) (testator) (name,

address, and date and place of birth) in my presence and that of the

witnesses: (name, address, and date and place of birth);

and (name, address, and date and place of birth) has

declared that the attached document is the testator's will and that the

testator knows the contents of the will.

I further certify that in my presence and in the presence of the witnesses:

(1) the testator has signed the will or has acknowledged the testator's

signature previously affixed;

(2) following a declaration of the testator stating that the testator

was unable to sign the testator's will for the following reason

, I have noted this declaration on the will and the

signature has been affixed by (name and address);

(3) the witnesses and I have signed the will;

(4) each page of the will has been signed by (name and

address) and numbered;

(5) I have satisfied myself as to the identity of the testator and of

the witnesses as designated above;

(6) the witnesses met the conditions requisite to act as such according

to the law under which I am acting; and

(7) the testator has requested me to include the following statement

concerning the safekeeping of the testator's will: .

PLACE OF EXECUTION

DATE

SIGNATURE and, if necessary, SEAL".