Delaware Will Requirements

A Delaware will must be in writing, signed by the testator or by another person writing the testator's name in the testator's presence and at the testator's express direction, and attested and subscribed in the testator's presence by two or more credible witnesses. 12 Del. C. § 202 sets all of it in one short section, and § 202(b) makes a will that misses any part of it void.

The execution rules sit in Chapter 2 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, the state's decedents' estates title, and the proving rules sit in Chapter 13. Every rule on this page was read in the official Delaware Code published by the Delaware Code Revisors on 2026-09-10, section by section, and each one is cited where it appears.

Read this page as a map of the statutes rather than a signing kit. It is general information about Delaware law and not advice about your estate. A licensed Delaware attorney should look at any plan that involves real property, a blended family, or a fight you can already see coming.

A valid will still goes to the courthouse. Under 12 Del. C. § 1302 a will is proved before the Register of Wills of the county where the testator was domiciled at death, and § 1302(b) says a will must be declared valid by admission to probate before it can prove a transfer of any property or nominate an executor. The will names who inherits and who serves, and the estate still moves through the office described in proving a Delaware will. What happens with no valid will is settled by the Delaware intestacy statutes instead.

Who Can Make a Delaware Will

12 Del. C. § 201 answers the age question twice, once each way. Any person of the age of 18 years or upwards, of sound and disposing mind and memory, may make a will of real and personal estate. No person under the age of 18 years shall be capable of making a will either of real or personal estate.

That second sentence does real work, because Delaware writes no exception into it. Title 12 was searched on 2026-09-10 and carries no emancipation route to testamentary capacity, no earlier age for a married minor and no petition a court can grant. Eighteen is the floor for every Delaware testator.

Delaware also asks for a "sound and disposing mind and memory" rather than the shorter "sound mind" of many codes. The standard lives in that phrase and in the case law built on it, not in a checklist somewhere else in the title.

What Makes a Delaware Will Valid

12 Del. C. § 202(a) carries three requirements and nothing else:

1. In writing.
2. Signed by the testator, or by some person subscribing the testator's name in the testator's presence and by the testator's express direction.
3. Attested and subscribed in the testator's presence by 2 or more credible witnesses, subject to the choice-of-law rule at § 1306.

Then comes the sentence that decides the stakes. § 202(b): "Any will not complying with subsection (a) of this section shall be void." Void, not contestable. A Delaware will that skips a witness does not reach the Court of Chancery for an argument about what the testator meant, because Title 12 gives a court no room to admit a defective will on proof of intent. The authenticated Title 12 PDF was searched for a harmless-error rescue on 2026-09-10 and there is none.

Four details separate Delaware from the states people move here from.

Delaware does not require the signature at the end. § 202(a)(1) asks that the will be signed and stops there. Compare the international will subchapter a few sections later, where § 254(a) does put the signatures at the end and numbers every sheet. Delaware knew how to write that requirement and left it out of § 202. Signing on the last page is still the sensible habit, because it is the only place a reader looks and because a signature in the middle invites an argument about what came after it.

The presence requirement runs one direction. The words "in testator's presence" attach to the witnesses. They have to attest and subscribe while the testator is there. § 202 says nothing about whether the witnesses must watch the testator sign or hear the testator acknowledge a signature already made, and it says nothing about the witnesses signing in front of each other. The section says less here than readers expect. Have the testator sign first, in front of both witnesses, and none of that comes up.

Two is a floor, not a ceiling. The section says 2 or more, so a third witness is welcome and adds a spare name for the day someone has to prove a signature.

The two-witness rule is not the only route. § 202(a)(2) opens with "Subject to § 1306 of this title", and § 1306 accepts a will executed under the law of the place where it was signed or under the law of the testator's domicile, abode or nationality. That route is covered further down, and it is the reason a handwritten will from another state can still work here.

Who May Witness, and Why a Beneficiary Costs Nothing

12 Del. C. § 203 is two sentences long and both are worth reading slowly.

§ 203(a): any person generally competent to be a witness may act as a witness to a will. Delaware puts no age in that sentence and no disinterest requirement. Competency to testify is the whole test.

§ 203(b) is the sentence that reverses what most people expect. A will, or any provision of it, "is not invalid because the will is signed by an interested person." Delaware does not purge an interested witness, and it does not void the gift to one either. A daughter who signs as a witness to her mother's will has broken nothing and forfeits nothing. Chapter 2 was read in full on 2026-09-10 and contains no provision voiding a gift to a witness, no cap tying that gift to an intestate share and no rescue clause requiring two other disinterested witnesses.

Here is the caution that belongs next to it. Execution and influence are different questions. A will witnessed by the person who inherits most of it survives § 202 and § 203 cleanly and can still be opposed on capacity or undue influence, which is where challenging a Delaware will picks up. Using two witnesses who take nothing costs an afternoon and removes the argument.

Delaware Does Not Accept Unwitnessed Handwritten Wills

Delaware has no holographic will statute. The full text of Title 12 was searched on 2026-09-10 and the word holographic appears nowhere in it, so there is no category for an unwitnessed handwritten document to fall into. § 202(a)(2) governs whatever the document is made of, and it wants two credible witnesses whether the text is typed, printed or written out longhand.

A page in the testator's own handwriting, signed and dated and locked in a drawer, passes nothing in Delaware. The estate goes through the Delaware intestate succession rules as though the page did not exist. Handwriting the document is fine. Skipping the witnesses is fatal to it.

One route can still save such a document, and it comes from outside § 202. If the will was executed in a state that accepts unwitnessed handwritten wills, or under the law of a place where the testator was domiciled, had a place of abode or held nationality at signing or at death, § 1306(a) makes it valid in Delaware anyway. That covers a person who wrote a holographic will elsewhere and later moved to Wilmington. It does nothing for a testator who signed in Delaware, is domiciled in Delaware and holds no other nationality, because for that person § 202 is the whole test.

Handwriting does do real work in one place, and it is not a will. 12 Del. C. § 212 lets a Delaware will point to a separate written statement or list disposing of tangible personal property the will does not itself dispose of, other than money, evidences of indebtedness, documents of title, securities and property used in trade or business. The list must either be in the testator's handwriting or be signed by the testator, and it must identify the items and the legatees with reasonable certainty. It may be written before or after the will, may be altered afterward, and where two lists conflict the one carrying the latest date controls. That is the clean way to handle the jewelry and the furniture without redrafting the will every time someone changes their mind.

Self-Proved Delaware Wills

12 Del. C. § 1305 lets an attested will be made self-proved at the time of its execution or at any subsequent date. A will signed in 2004 with no affidavit can be made self-proved now, as long as the testator and the witnesses will sign.

The mechanics are fixed. The testator acknowledges the will and the witnesses swear affidavits, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths under Delaware law. That officer attaches or annexes a certificate under official seal, in the form printed in the section, and the certificate is what makes the will self-proved. Delaware asks for an officer authorized to administer oaths rather than naming a notary, so the section reaches further than the word notary does.

The payoff arrives at the Register of Wills. Under 12 Del. C. § 1310, a self-proved will carries a conclusive presumption that the signature requirements were met and a rebuttable presumption on the rest, with no testimony from any witness at all, and the will is admitted unless there is proof of fraud or forgery affecting the acknowledgment or affidavit.

Skip the affidavit and the family inherits a hunt. 12 Del. C. § 1304 spells out what that looks like. If an attesting witness has died, is serving in the armed forces, is a merchant sailor, is mentally or physically incapable of testifying, is outside Delaware or is otherwise unavailable, proof of that witness's signature is enough, sworn by a credible disinterested person who can say the handwriting is theirs. If a witness signature cannot be proven at all, the proof shifts to the testator's own signature: one credible disinterested person where one witness signature can still be proven, and two of them where none can. The Register can still ask for a subscribing witness on top of any of it. Ten minutes with an officer authorized to administer oaths on signing day removes that whole section from the family's future.

Delaware also honors a self-proving affidavit made under another state's rules. § 1306(b) treats an attested will that § 1306 makes valid as self-proved if it met Delaware's § 1305 form, or the self-proving law of the place where it was made self-proved, or the self-proving law of the testator's domicile, abode or nationality at death.

Delaware Has No Electronic Wills Act

Delaware has never enacted the Uniform Electronic Wills Act or any local version of it. Three checks point the same direction, and the third is the interesting one.

The Delaware Code carries no electronic wills chapter. The authenticated Title 12 PDF was searched on 2026-09-10 for the phrase electronic will and returned zero occurrences, against control searches on the same file that returned the sections they should have. There is no enactment date and no effective date to report for a Delaware electronic will, because there is no act to date.

Delaware's Uniform Electronic Transactions Act then excludes wills by name. 6 Del. C. § 12A-103(b)(1) says the chapter does not apply to a transaction to the extent it is governed by a law governing the creation and execution of wills or codicils. Delaware adopted that act through 72 Del. Laws, c. 457, approved July 14, 2000, and § 12A-104 applies it to electronic records and signatures created on or after that same date.

The third check shows the exclusion is deliberate and recent. 83 Del. Laws, c. 69, approved June 30, 2021, did two things in one act. It edited § 12A-103(b)(1) to strike the words "or testamentary trusts", which pulled testamentary trusts into electronic execution. And it added 12 Del. C. § 3550, which lists the estate and trust documents that may be signed under the electronic transactions act and carves out, in the statute's own words, a document "other than a will or codicil". Delaware looked at this question five years ago, opened the door for trust paperwork, and closed it on wills.

Nothing in Title 12 authorizes remote or video witnessing either. The title was searched for audio, video and remote witnessing language on 2026-09-10 and the only hits sit in the adult guardianship jurisdiction chapter and the digital assets chapter, neither of which touches will execution.

The reader-facing consequence is short. You can draft a Delaware will online, and plenty of people do. You cannot sign one electronically, and no Delaware statute lets your witnesses attend by video. Print it, sign it, and have two credible witnesses subscribe in the room with you. Electronic wills law moves quickly in other states, so treat this section as dated: it reflects the Delaware Code as published on 2026-09-10.

Delaware Does Not Accept Oral Wills

12 Del. C. § 202(a)(1) requires a writing and § 202(b) voids anything that misses it. Title 12 contains no nuncupative will section, no deathbed exception and no soldier or sailor exception. The word nuncupative was searched across the whole title on 2026-09-10 and returned zero occurrences.

The choice-of-law escape hatch does not reach an oral will either. § 1306(a) opens with "A written will signed by the testator", so the writing and the signature are a floor no foreign instrument gets under. A state that honors spoken testamentary words cannot carry them into Delaware.

Instructions given to a family at a bedside pass nothing here. They may guide an executor's discretion and they carry no legal force over the estate.

A Will Signed in Another State

12 Del. C. § 1306(a) accepts a written will signed by the testator, or by another writing the testator's name in the testator's presence and at the testator's express direction, if any one of three things is true:

• it was executed in compliance with § 202 of Title 12; or
• it was executed in compliance with the law, at the time of execution, of the place where it was executed; or
• it was executed in compliance with the law of the place where the testator was domiciled, had a place of abode or held nationality, either at execution or at death.

Read the section's own heading before assuming it is only for out-of-state paper. It is titled "Choice of law as to execution and proving of wills", and § 202(a)(2) is expressly subject to it, so the domicile and nationality routes are open to a will signed on a kitchen table in Dover by someone domiciled elsewhere.

A separate section handles the estate of someone who died living somewhere else. 12 Del. C. § 1307 lets the written will of a testator who died domiciled outside Delaware be admitted and recorded here when they owned real estate or personal property in the state. If the will was already admitted to probate in the domiciliary jurisdiction, the family files a verified copy of the will together with a verified copy of the record admitting it, certified in the form the section spells out. If it was not admitted there, and was not rejected there for a reason Delaware would not accept, the will is proved under §§ 1302 through 1305 and then has the same force as if it had been proved here first. The recording happens with the Register of Wills of any county where the property sits.

A will signed in another state does not need re-signing after a move to Delaware. Have a Delaware attorney read it anyway, because the rules around the will change at the state line: the elective share, the family allowance and the way an after-born child reshapes the document are all Delaware questions now.

What Revokes a Delaware Will, and What Quietly Does Not

12 Del. C. § 208 lists the only ways to alter or revoke a Delaware will:

• canceling it, done by the testator or by another person in the testator's presence and at the testator's express direction;
• a valid later will; or
• a writing signed by the testator, or by another subscribing the testator's name in the testator's presence and at the express direction, and attested and subscribed in the testator's presence by 2 or more credible witnesses.

The section closes by preserving implied revocation, so a later will that disposes of the same property differently still does its work without saying the word revoke.

12 Del. C. § 209 handles divorce and then shuts the door on everything else. A divorce or annulment after the will revokes any disposition or appointment of property to the former spouse, any provision giving the former spouse a power of appointment, and any nomination of the former spouse as executor, trustee, guardian or other fiduciary, unless the will says otherwise. That property passes as if the former spouse had failed to survive. Provisions revoked solely by that section come back if the testator remarries the former spouse. A decree of separation is not a divorce for this purpose. Then the last sentence: no changes or circumstances other than the ones this section describes revoke a Delaware will or any part of it.

That sentence retires a rule people carry in from other states. Marrying after signing a will does not revoke it in Delaware. Marrying and then having a child does not revoke it either. Do not import a marriage-plus-child revocation rule here.

Two sections then reshape an unchanged will without revoking a word of it, and they are the ones that catch families out.

A spouse married after the will takes the intestate share. 12 Del. C. § 321 covers a person who made a will before the marriage and made no provision for the spouse by will or otherwise. The surviving spouse takes the same part of the estate, real and personal, that they would have taken had the testator died intestate. § 322 assigns that share the way an intestate share is assigned, with each devisee and legatee contributing a just portion. § 323 states the flip side plainly: a subsequent marriage does not revoke the will of a person who did make provision for a surviving spouse, by the will or otherwise.

A child born or adopted after the will takes the intestate share. 12 Del. C. § 301 gives an after-born child, or that child's descendants if the child died first, the same portion of the estate the child would have taken had the parent died intestate, whenever the will made no provision at all for that child, vested or contingent, whether by naming the child or by covering a class the child belongs to, and whether by will or otherwise. The escape is written into the same section: it does not apply where the will says that the birth of later children shall not affect it.

That section was rewritten recently and the change is worth knowing. 85 Del. Laws, c. 156, approved August 21, 2025, struck the old opening words "A child born after its parent has made" and put "If a testator becomes a parent of a child after making" in their place. Becoming a parent is broader than giving birth, so an adoption after the will now lands squarely inside § 301. § 310 separately brings in a child in the womb who is later born alive.

Where does the after-born child's share come from? § 302 and § 307 take it first from any intestate estate the parent left, and then proportionally from the devisees and legatees under the will. § 303 lets the Court of Chancery appoint five freeholders to appraise and allot the land where real estate is involved.

Validating a Will While the Testator Is Alive

Delaware answers the worry that sends most people looking for a will page in the first place, and it answers it before the death rather than after.

12 Del. C. § 1311 lets a living testator serve written notice, with a copy of the will attached, on any beneficiary named in it, on anyone who would inherit under Chapter 5 if the testator died intestate that day, and on anyone else the testator wants bound. The notice has to state that a person who wants to contest the will must do so within 120 days of receiving it. A recipient who wants to fight files in the Court of Chancery inside those 120 days and the case runs on the same footing as a § 1308 caveat.

The consequence lands after the death, and it carries a residence condition worth reading twice. Where the testator resided in Delaware at death, anyone who was duly notified and let the 120 days expire before that death cannot bring a § 1308 caveat or a § 1309 review, and cannot join one somebody else brought. If the testator dies before the 120 days run, § 1311 does nothing at all and the ordinary post-death routes stay open.

Three limits keep the section honest. § 1311(d) says that not using the procedure is no evidence a will is invalid. § 1311(e) lets the testator sign a codicil or a later will afterward, and the notice does not validate that new document. § 1311(f) protects the surviving spouse's elective share petition and allowance and anyone's claim to an intestate share, none of which § 1311 can cut short.

The section was added by 80 Del. Laws, c. 153, approved August 7, 2015. Anyone weighing it should talk to a Delaware attorney first, because serving a copy of your will on the relative you expect to object is a family decision before it is a legal one.

What a Delaware Will Carries Without Redrafting

Four short sections answer the questions people ask when they wonder whether an older will still works.

• Property bought after signing still passes. 12 Del. C. § 206 sends any estate, right or interest in land acquired after the will was made through the will as though the testator had owned it that day, unless a contrary intention appears. A new house does not require a new will for that reason alone.
• A devise of land passes the whole interest. 12 Del. C. § 205 reads a devise of real estate without words of limitation as passing the fee simple, or whatever whole estate or interest the testator could lawfully devise, unless the will shows otherwise.
• A will can pour into a trust. 12 Del. C. § 211 lets a will devise property to the trustee of a trust already established or still to be established, including one set up in another person's will where that person died first, and the gift is not invalid because the trust is amendable or revocable or was amended after the will was signed or after the death. Revoking or terminating that trust before the death makes the gift lapse unless the will says otherwise.
• A separate list handles the household items. 12 Del. C. § 212, covered above.

Delaware also keeps a route for a testator with assets abroad. Subchapter II of Chapter 2, 12 Del. C. §§ 251 through 259, adopts the international will. The testator declares in front of two credible witnesses and an authorized person that the document is their will, signs or acknowledges the signature there, and the witnesses and the authorized person sign in the testator's presence. Signatures go at the end, each sheet is signed and numbered, and the authorized person attaches a certificate that § 256 treats as conclusive of formal validity unless there is evidence to the contrary. § 252(b) adds a safety net: failing as an international will does not affect the document's validity as a will of another kind.

After the Death: Handing the Will Over

Delaware puts a ten-day clock on the person holding the document, and a felony on the person who damages it.

12 Del. C. § 1301(a) requires anyone having custody or possession of an instrument purporting to be a will to produce and deliver it to the Register of Wills within 10 days from the time they learn of the testator's death. § 1301(b) makes willful failure a civil matter: damages to anyone aggrieved, plus civil contempt of the Court of Chancery if the person still refuses after being ordered to deliver.

The crime sits in a different section and reaches a different act. 12 Del. C. § 210 makes it a class E felony to willfully add to, alter, deface, erase, obliterate, mutilate, blot, blur, hide, conceal, destroy, misplace with intent to conceal, or steal any instrument purporting to be a will, whether or not the testator handed that person the document. Keep the two apart. Sitting on a will is answered with damages and contempt. Shredding one is answered with a felony charge.

When the will is in a bank, 12 Del. C. § 1313 opens the box before anyone is appointed. Access is limited to a person who brings the key or combination, a certified death certificate or other satisfactory proof of the death, and proof of identity, a photocopy of which stays in the box. A person who cannot present either lock opener needs a court order instead. The bank supervises, and the visit is limited to opening the box, photocopying any will or declaration of disposition of last remains, and taking the originals once the photocopies are left behind. A will that appears on its face to have been executed in Delaware or by a testator residing in Delaware goes from the bank straight to the Register of Wills under § 1301(a), provided the decedent was domiciled in Delaware at death.

Delaware sets no outer deadline for offering a will to probate. Title 12 was searched for one on 2026-09-10 and none exists. The clocks that do run are the 10 days in § 1301; the 6-month window in § 1309, which starts at the order of probate and opens only for an interested person who did not voluntarily appear and was not served with citation or notice; and the 8-month bar in 12 Del. C. § 2102(a), which runs from the death and decides whether a creditor's claim is in the queue at all.

Signing a Delaware Will That Holds Up

A compliant Delaware signing looks like this:

1. Confirm the testator is 18 or over and of sound and disposing mind and memory under 12 Del. C. § 201.
2. Put the will in writing.
3. Have the testator sign it, on the last page, or have another person write the testator's name in the testator's presence and at the testator's express direction.
4. Bring in two adults who are competent to testify. Delaware disqualifies neither a beneficiary nor a relative, and two witnesses who take nothing keep the question off the table anyway.
5. Have both witnesses attest and subscribe while the testator is in the room.
6. Add the § 1305 acknowledgment and affidavits before an officer authorized to administer oaths, so nobody has to prove a signature years later under § 1304.
7. Sign a new will after a marriage or after becoming a parent, because § 321 and § 301 reshape an older document without anyone touching it.
8. Tell whoever will hold the will that § 1301 gives them 10 days after the death to hand it to the Register of Wills.

A will governs what happens after a death and nothing before it, and it is one document among several. The rest of a Delaware estate plan covers the lifetime documents and the assets that pass outside the will entirely.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many witnesses does a Delaware will need?

Two. 12 Del. C. § 202(a)(2) requires every will to be attested and subscribed in the testator's presence by 2 or more credible witnesses. Delaware sets no upper limit, so a third witness is allowed. Miss the second one and § 202(b) makes the whole document void rather than merely open to challenge.

Does a Delaware will have to be notarized?

No. 12 Del. C. § 202 asks for writing, the testator's signature and two credible witnesses, and it never asks for a notary. An officer authorized to administer oaths enters only through the optional self-proving certificate under § 1305. A notarized Delaware will with no witnesses is void.

Is a handwritten will valid in Delaware?

Only if two credible witnesses attested and subscribed it. Delaware has no holographic will statute, so handwriting buys the document nothing. An unwitnessed page in the testator's own hand fails 12 Del. C. § 202(a)(2), and the estate passes under the Delaware intestacy rules instead.

Does Delaware accept electronic wills?

No. Delaware has never enacted an electronic wills act, so there is no enactment date and no effective date to report. 6 Del. C. § 12A-103(b)(1) keeps wills and codicils outside the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and 12 Del. C. § 3550 lists the estate documents that may be signed electronically while excluding a will or codicil by name.

Can a witness inherit under a Delaware will?

Yes, and that answer surprises most people. 12 Del. C. § 203(b) says a will is not invalid because it is signed by an interested person, and Chapter 2 voids no gift to a witness. Two witnesses who take nothing still make for a cleaner signing, because the beneficiary who witnessed can be questioned on other grounds.

Does getting married revoke a Delaware will?

No. 12 Del. C. § 209 ends with the rule that no changes or circumstances other than divorce or annulment revoke a Delaware will. Marriage after the will leaves the document standing, and 12 Del. C. § 321 gives the new spouse the intestate share when the earlier will made no provision for them by will or otherwise.

Can a Delaware will be challenged before the testator dies?

Delaware allows it. Under 12 Del. C. § 1311 a living testator may serve beneficiaries and heirs with a copy of the will and a notice that any challenge must be filed in the Court of Chancery within 120 days. Anyone who lets that window close, and who is still alive to the testator's death, is shut out of a caveat or a review afterward.

Related Guides

• Delaware Probate Guide
• Delaware Will Contests
• Delaware Intestate Succession
• Delaware Estate Planning Basics

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• Title: Title 12, Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations, authenticated PDF of the full title. Publisher: Delaware Code Revisors, State of Delaware. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://delcode.delaware.gov/title12/Title12.pdf

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