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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="5-802" title_number="5" title_name="Opening the Estate" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Admission of Copy of Executed Will">
  <text>A petition for admission of a copy of a will may be filed with the court at any time before administrative or judicial probate if:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>The original executed will is alleged to be lost or destroyed;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>A duplicate reproduction of the original executed will, evidencing a copy of the original signatures of the decedent and the witnesses, is offered for admission; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>All the heirs at law and legatees named in the offered will execute a consent in the manner set forth in § 5–803 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
