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Kentucky law requires your living will directive to be witnessed by two adults or notarized. Neither the witnesses nor the notary public may be your blood relative, your physician or anyone directly responsible for financing your health care.

No, in Kentucky, you do not need to notarize your will to make it legal. However, Kentucky allows you to make your will "self-proving" and you'll need to go to a notary if you want to do that. A self-proving will speeds up probate because the court can accept the will without contacting the witnesses who signed it.

Here's a quick checklist for making a will in Kentucky: Decide what property to include in your will. Decide who will inherit your property. Choose an executor to handle your estate. Choose a guardian for your children. Choose someone to manage children's property. Make your will. Sign your will in front of witnesses.

A Kentucky Living Will is a legal document that sets forth your wishes regarding health care, such as your request for or refusal of specific medical treatments and procedures, in addition to the (optional) selection of a trusted healthcare agent.

In Kentucky you can write a will in your own handwriting. This type of will is known as a holographic will. If you make this kind of will, the entire will needs to be handwritten by you. It must be signed and dated by you as well.

Oral wills, also known as nuncupative wills, aren't recognized by Kentucky. Holographic or handwritten wills are recognized if ?wholly written by the testator.? However, there's some risk that that if the will is worded incorrectly, due to lack of legal knowledge, vagueness, typos, etc., it won't be found valid.