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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="4-105" title_number="4" title_name="Wills" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Execution, Revocation, and Revival">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a will, or any part of it, may not be revoked in any manner.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A will may be revoked under the following circumstances:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>By provision in a subsequent, validly executed will that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Revokes any prior will or part of it either expressly or by necessary implication; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Expressly republishes an earlier will that had been revoked by an intermediate will but is still in existence;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>By burning, cancelling, tearing, or obliterating the will, by the testator, or by some other person in the testator’s presence and by the testator’s express direction and consent;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>By subsequent marriage of the testator followed by the birth, adoption, or legitimation of a child by the testator provided the child or the child’s descendant survives the testator; and all wills executed before the marriage shall be revoked; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>By an absolute divorce of a testator and the testator’s spouse or the annulment of the marriage, either of which occurs subsequent to the execution of the testator’s will; and all provisions in the will relating to the spouse, and only those provisions, shall be revoked unless otherwise provided in the will or decree.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
