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"Body" Building: Expanding Arkansas's Standard For Holographic Wills, Andrew L. Lawson
"Body" Building: Expanding Arkansas's Standard For Holographic Wills, Andrew L. Lawson
Arkansas Law Review
In times past, entirely handwritten documents represented the vast majority of holographic wills. These homemade testaments included dense pages of text that the drafter diligently memorialized by hand, carefully crafted letters with testamentary directions to the author’s loved ones, and unassuming notes tucked away in a drawer, perhaps with names, proportions, and shorthand property descriptions. If a probate court encountered a holographic testament, odds were that it resembled these traditional examples.