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Massachusetts · Through amendments passed before May 31, 2026

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 190B, § 2-505: Who may witness

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  1. Part II
  2. Title II
  3. Chapter 190B

Section 2–505. [Who May Witness.]

(a) An individual generally competent to be a witness may act as a witness to a will.

(b) The signing of a will by an interested witness shall not invalidate the will or any provision of it except that a devise to a witness or a spouse of such witness shall be void unless there are 2 other subscribing witnesses to the will who are not similarly benefited thereunder or the interested witness establishes that the bequest was not inserted, and the will was not signed, as a result of fraud or undue influence by the witness.

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