http://soriano-ph.com all about life, law, society and cyberspace Fri, 07 May 2010 06:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ph/ http://soriano-ph.com/2008/01/28/will-without-the-legal-formalities/ http://soriano-ph.com/2008/01/28/will-without-the-legal-formalities/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:32:50 +0000 JNS http://soriano-ph.com/2008/01/28/will-without-the-legal-formalities/ A person in contemplation of death may execute his own will, without need of lawyer’s assistance and the other formalities of a testament provided it is entirely written, dated and signed by the hand of the testator himself [Art. 810]. Under the Civil Code of the Philippines (R. A. 386 – approved: 18 June 1949), this is known as ‘holographic will’. It is subject to no other form, may be made in or out of the Philippines, and need not be witnessed.

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