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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="4-605" title_number="4" title_name="Wills" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Maryland International Wills Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An authorized person shall attach to the will a certificate to be signed by the authorized person establishing that the requirements for valid execution of an international will have been met.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The authorized person shall keep a copy of the certificate and deliver a copy to the testator.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A certificate under this section shall be substantially in the following form:</text>
    <text>“CERTIFICATE</text>
    <text>(Convention of October 26, 1973)</text>
    <text>I, __________________ (name, address, and capacity), a person authorized to act in connection with international wills, certify that on ________________________ (date) at__________________(place)___________________(testator)____________________(name, address, and date and place of birth) in my presence and that of the witnesses: _____________________ (name, address, and date and place of birth); and _____________________ (name, address, and date and place of birth) has declared that the attached document is the testator’s will and that the testator knows the contents of the will.</text>
    <text>I further certify that in my presence and in the presence of the witnesses:</text>
  </level>
  <level label="1">
    <text>the testator has signed the will or has acknowledged the testator’s signature previously affixed;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>following a declaration of the testator stating that the testator was unable to sign the testator’s will for the following reason ____________________, I have noted this declaration on the will and the signature has been affixed  by _____________ (name and address);</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>the witnesses and I have signed the will;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>each page of the will has been signed by _______________________ (name and address) and numbered;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>I have satisfied myself as to the identity of the testator and of the witnesses as designated above;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>the witnesses met the conditions requisite to act as such according to the law under which I am acting; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>the testator has requested me to include the following statement concerning the safekeeping of the testator’s will: ____________________________________________________________________.</text>
    <text>PLACE OF EXECUTION _____________________</text>
    <text>DATE ________________________________________</text>
    <text>SIGNATURE _________________________________ and, if necessary, SEAL”.</text>
  </level>
</section>
