Sample Codicil
© ChildFund Sri Lanka.
When it’s time to update your will, you don’t have to start from scratch. You can use a codicil, which is an addition or supplement that explains or modifies your existing will.
In all other respects I ratify and confirm all of the provision of my said last Will and Testament dated on the _________ day of ______________, 20__.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I sign, publish and declare this instrument to be a Codicil to my last Will and Testament in the presence of the persons witnessing said Codicil at my request this _____ day of ___________, 20__.
(name)
Witnesses
(name)
(name)
The codicil, to be valid, must be signed in the presence of witnesses, and the original placed with your other valuable papers. A copy can go to your lawyer and a copy to ChildFund International.
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