# Idaho — Will execution requirements by state: witnesses, notarization, holographic and electronic wills

For Idaho, witnesses required is shall be signed by at least two (2) persons each of whom witnessed either the signing or the testator’s acknowledgment of the signature or of the will; statute citation is Idaho Code § 15-2-502, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.

- **State:** Idaho
- **Witnesses required:** shall be signed by at least two (2) persons each of whom witnessed either the signing or the testator’s acknowledgment of the signature or of the will _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute citation:** Idaho Code § 15-2-502 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Statute citation:** Idaho Code § 15-2-503 _(per legislature.idaho.gov — a different platform or surface from the one above)_
- **Holographic wills:** is valid as a holographic will, whether or not witnessed, if the signature and the material provisions are in the handwriting of the testator _(per legislature.idaho.gov, not stated by the source above)_

## What the source says

> every will shall be in writing signed by the testator or in the testator’s name by some other person in the testator’s presence and by his direction, and shall be signed by at least two (2) persons each of whom witnessed either the signing or the testator’s acknowledgment of the signature or of the will.

## The source states this two ways

The same publisher states this differently in more than one place. Each version is reproduced with the page it came from.

### Statute citation

legislature.idaho.gov says statute citation is **Idaho Code § 15-2-502**, as of 2026-09-02.

> every will shall be in writing signed by the testator or in the testator’s name by some other person in the testator’s presence and by his direction, and shall be signed by at least two (2) persons each of whom witnessed either the signing or the testator’s acknowledgment of the signature or of the will.

Source: https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title15/T15CH2/SECT15-2-502/

legislature.idaho.gov says statute citation is **Idaho Code § 15-2-503**, as of 2026-09-02.

> 15-2-502 of this Part is valid as a holographic will, whether or not witnessed, if the signature and the material provisions are in the handwriting of the testator.

Source: https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title15/T15CH2/SECT15-2-503/


## Source

- https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title15/T15CH2/SECT15-2-502/
- https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title15/T15CH2/SECT15-2-503/

Last verified: 2026-09-02. Review by: 2028-02-24.
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