S.D. Codified Laws § 29A-2-504
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Self-proved will
Official statutory text
(a) A will may be simultaneously executed, attested, and made self - proved, by acknowledgment thereof by the testator and affidavits of the witnesses, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths under the laws of the state in which execution occurs and evidenced by the officer's certificate, under official seal, in substantially the following form:
I, ________________, the testator, sign my name to this instrument this ______ day of ____________, and being first duly sworn, do hereby declare to the undersigned authority that I sign and execute this instrument as my will and that I sign it willingly (or willingly direct another to sign for me), that I execute it as my free and voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed, and that I am eighteen years of age or older, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue influence.
(c) A signature affixed to a self - proving affidavit attached to a will is considered a signature affixed to the will, if necessary to prove the will's due execution.
Source: SL 1995, ch 167, § 2-504.
I, ________________, the testator, sign my name to this instrument this ______ day of ____________, and being first duly sworn, do hereby declare to the undersigned authority that I sign and execute this instrument as my will and that I sign it willingly (or willingly direct another to sign for me), that I execute it as my free and voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed, and that I am eighteen years of age or older, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue influence.
(c) A signature affixed to a self - proving affidavit attached to a will is considered a signature affixed to the will, if necessary to prove the will's due execution.
Source: SL 1995, ch 167, § 2-504.
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