Changing or Revoking a Will
14 V.S.A. § 11 — a later will, or burning, tearing or cancelling with intent to revoke
- A later will revokes an earlier one expressly or by inconsistency.
- Burning, tearing, cancelling, obliterating or destroying a will with intent to revoke it revokes it, done by the testator or by another in the testator's conscious presence at the testator's direction.
- A burn, tear or cancellation counts even if it touches none of the words.
- A later will that disposes of the whole estate is presumed to replace the earlier one; one that does not is presumed to supplement it.
Sources for this section (1)
- 14 V.S.A. § 11 — How revoked
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