Volume V: Succession | Chapter 4 (2018): Substantive Validity of Wills
Completed December 2013
Bernard Dutoit
A. Minimum Age
6. The general rule. – Modern legislation has often set at eighteen years the minimum age required for the decedent to make a valid will. That solution may be found in many countries.1 Also in the united states, almost all States have set the age of testamentary capacity at eighteen, pursuant to the Uniform…