Testamentary or Contractual Capacity Case: Testamentary
Will Type or Trust: Holographic
Estate Value: $ 1000000.
Parallel Cite: 2009 WL 3385318
Docket Number: 13-09-00065-CV
Outcomes
Formalities / Solemnities - Summary: A testator's letter to his wife to tell her about finishing his will was not executed with testamentary intent and was not a will. The letter merely expressed the testator's concern that his testamentary wishes, as set forth in his formal will, would not be correctly understood. The testator did not intend for the letter to effectuate a disposition of his property after his death, but he intended for his previously executed formal written will to serve that purpose.