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You can change your will throughout your lifetime, without any legal consequences to you for doing so. However, you should not cross out sections of your existing will or attempt to write in a new beneficiary or executor. If you try to amend your will in this matter, you might end up invalidating the entire will.

It can be challenged on seven grounds: lack of testamentary capacity, lack of testamentary intention, lack of knowledge or approval, undue influence, fraud or forgery, revocation (familial claims), and if it lacks in execution.

Invalid execution of the will This can include circumstances where witnesses to the will have not witnessed the testator signing the will or acknowledged his signature in his presence. The witnesses must not be beneficiaries (or the spouse/civil partner of the beneficiary) to the will as this renders the will void.

A will is invalid if it is not properly witnessed or signed. Most commonly, two witnesses must sign the will in the testator's presence after watching the testator sign the will. The witnesses typically need to be a certain age, and should generally not stand to inherit anything from the will.

If the new will or codicil (a document which alters an existing will) does not contain an express revocation clause, it may still cancel the earlier will, but there may not be a complete cancellation.

The most common way to revoke a will is to execute a new one that states an intent to revoke all previously made wills. To revoke a will without making a new one, tear, burn, cancel, deface, obliterate or destroy it. This must be done with the intention of revoking it, and not done accidentally.

Firstly, if you know who the executors of the will are, ask them. If you are a beneficiary, they will normally tell you though there is no law saying they have to.