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Purging Statute – Wills, Trusts, and Estates Outline

Wills, Trusts, and Estates

Purging Statute


A slim majority of states have purging statutes, which purge benefits that witnesses to wills receive therefrom. Most of them only purge the benefits in excess of what the witness would have received in intestacy however.

If there are sufficient witnesses to a will without the interested witness, then that witness was supernumerary and may take his full devise.