Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Texas

in the state of texas is it required that you should initial every page or sign every page.

and if there is no longer any room at the end of each page, is a will valid if you sign lengthwise on each page.


Asked on 4/28/11, 10:30 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Brian Thomas Burdette & Rice PLLC

There is no requirement that each page of a typewritten Will be signed or initialed. The practice of initialing each page is commonly used as a means of adding some additional security to the document. For the same reason that original Wills should only be stapled a single time, lawyers often have clients initial each page as a way of demonstrating that the testator adopted each page, and that no pages were subsequently introduced in an effort to alter the original Will.

If you want to sign each page lengthwise, it's perfectly fine so long as your signature is not cutting off a part of the language on the page itself.

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Answered on 5/03/11, 9:59 am


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