(a) Any person competent to be a witness generally in this state may act as attesting witness to a will.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 32-1-103

  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Person: includes either man or woman, single or married. See Tennessee Code 32-1-101
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
(b) No will is invalidated because attested by an interested witness, but any interested witness shall, unless the will is also attested by two (2) disinterested witnesses, forfeit so much of the provisions therein made for the interested witness as in the aggregate exceeds in value, as of the date of the testator‘s death, what the interested witness would have received had the testator died intestate.
(c) No attesting witness is interested unless the will gives to the attesting witness some personal and beneficial interest.
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