3B:3-5. Making will self-proved subsequent to time of execution

the3B:3-5. Making will self-proved subsequent to time of execution

A will executed in compliance with N.J.S 3B:3-2 may be at any time subsequent to its execution be made self-proved by the acknowledgment thereof by the testator and the affidavits of the witnesses, each made before an officer authorized pursuant to R.S. 46:14-6, R.S. 46:14-7 or R.S. 46:14-8 to take acknowledgments and proofs of instruments entitled to be recorded under the laws of this State, attached or annexed to the will in substantially the following form:

The State of ...............
County of ..................
We, ........., ................, and ............, the testator and the witnesses, respectively, whose names are signed to the attached or foregoing instrument, be duly sworn, do hereby declare to the undersigned authority that the testator signed and executed the instrument as this last will and that he had singed willingly (or willingly directed another to sign for him), and that he executed it as his free and voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed, and that each of the witnesses, in the presence and hearing of the testator, signed the will as witnesses and that to the best of his knowledge the testator was at that time 18 years of age or older, of sound mind and under no constraint or undue influence.
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Testator
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Witness
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Witness

Subscribed, sworn to and acknowledged before me by ......., the testator, and subscribed and sworn to before me by ............. and ................., witnesses, this ............... day of ..................
(Signed) ........................
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(Official capacity of officer)