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Revoking a Will

KRS 394.080 — a later will, a signed writing, or destroying it with intent, and no other way

  • By a later will or codicil.
  • By a writing declaring the intent to revoke, signed in the way a will must be signed.
  • By the maker, or someone in their presence and at their direction, cutting, tearing, burning, obliterating, canceling or destroying the will or the signature, with intent to revoke.
  • KRS 394.080
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Those are the only ways. A will or any part of it is not revoked otherwise.

  • KRS 394.080
Sources for this section (1)
  1. KRS 394.080 — Revocation of will -- How effected

Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of October 2026. Applying it to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Kentucky attorney.

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