Florida Will Age Requirements

Age Requirements: Any person who is of sound mind and who is either 18 or more years of age or an emancipated minor may make a will. ¹

Will Signing Requirements

Will Signing Requirements: The testator must sign the will at the end or the testator’s name must be subscribed at the end of the will by some other person in the testator’s presence and by the testator’s direction. ²

Florida Will Witness Requirements

Will Witnessing Requirements: At least two persons each of whom witnessed either the signing or the testator’s acknowledgment of the signature or of the will. Any person competent to be a witness may act as a witness to a will. The will or codicil, or any part of either, is not invalid because the will or codicil is signed by an interested witness. ³

Florida Self-Proved Wills

Florida allows self-proved wills. A will or codicil executed in conformity with state statute may be made self-proved at the time of its execution or at any subsequent date by the acknowledgment of it by the testator and the affidavits of the witnesses, made before an officer authorized to administer oaths and evidenced by the officer’s certificate attached to or following the will.

Revoking a Florida Will

A Florida will can be revoked by subsequent will, by codicil, or by the testator destroying it.

Summary of Florida Will Requirements

Anyone 18 years of age or older, or any emancipated adult, can write and sign a will in Florida. The will should be witnessed by two persons. The will is not considered to be invalid if the witnesses are named as beneficiaries in the will. If the will is notarized, it is considered to be self-proved.