ESTATES AND PROTECTED INDIVIDUALS CODE
Act 386 of 1998
700.3406 Formal testacy proceedings; contested cases; testimony of attesting witnesses.
Sec. 3406.
(1) If evidence concerning execution of an attested will that is not self-proved is necessary in a contested case, the testimony of at least 1 of the attesting witnesses, if within the state and if competent and able to testify, is required. Due execution of an attested or unattested will may be proved by other evidence.
(2) If a will is self-proved, compliance with signature requirements for execution is conclusively presumed and other requirements of execution are presumed subject to rebuttal without the testimony of any witness upon filing the will and the acknowledgment and sworn statements annexed or attached to the will, unless there is proof of fraud or forgery affecting the acknowledgment or a sworn statement.
(3) If a witness is competent at the time he or she signs the will, the witness's subsequent incompetency from whatever cause does not prevent admission of the will to probate, if it is otherwise satisfactorily proved.
History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
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20241114_C369865_46_369865.Opn.Pdf (Mich. Ct. App. 2024).
· cites it 3× “” Next, Mills’ argument that an evidentiary hearing was required with at least one attesting witnesses’ testimony to prove due execution under MCL 700.3406(1) is without merit. The trial court addressed this issue at the motion hearing, stating: The Court is satisfied that this…”
in Re Span Est. (Mich. Ct. App. 2016).
· cites it 2× “MCL 700.3406(1) provides: If evidence concerning execution of an attested will that is not self-proved is necessary in a contested case, the testimony of at least 1 of the attesting witnesses, if within the state and if competent and able to testify, is required.”
— Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.3406(1) — 2 cases
20241114_C369865_46_369865.Opn.Pdf (Mich. Ct. App. 2024).
“” Next, Mills’ argument that an evidentiary hearing was required with at least one attesting witnesses’ testimony to prove due execution under MCL 700.3406(1) is without merit. The trial court addressed this issue at the motion hearing, stating: The Court is satisfied that this…”
in Re Span Est. (Mich. Ct. App. 2016).
“MCL 700.3406(1) provides: If evidence concerning execution of an attested will that is not self-proved is necessary in a contested case, the testimony of at least 1 of the attesting witnesses, if within the state and if competent and able to testify, is required.”
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