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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67027</law_id><section_number>64.2-403</section_number><catch_line>Execution of wills; requirements</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>64.2-404</reference><reference>64.2-407</reference><reference>64.2-408</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="64.2">Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Wills and Decedents' Estates</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Wills</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Requisites and Execution</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No <span class="dictionary">will</span> shall be valid unless it is in writing and signed by the testator, or by some other person in the testator&#x2019;s presence and by his direction, in such a manner as to make it manifest that the name is intended as a signature. <a id="paragraph-242930" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-403/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> A <span class="dictionary">will</span> wholly in the testator&#x2019;s handwriting is valid without further requirements, provided that the <span class="dictionary">fact</span> that a <span class="dictionary">will</span> is wholly in the testator&#x2019;s handwriting and signed by the testator is proved by at least two disinterested witnesses. <a id="paragraph-242931" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-403/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> A <span class="dictionary">will</span> not wholly in the testator&#x2019;s handwriting is not valid unless the signature of the testator is made, or the <span class="dictionary">will</span> is acknowledged by the testator, in the presence of at least two competent witnesses who are present at the same time and who subscribe the <span class="dictionary">will</span> in the presence of the testator. No form of attestation of the witnesses shall be necessary. <a id="paragraph-242932" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-403/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 64-51; 1968, c. 656, &#xA7; 64.1-49; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
