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

For Kansas, witnesses required is Such will shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of such party by two or more competent witnesses, who saw the testator subscribe or heard the testator acknowledge the will; self-proving affidavit is Such will, at the time of its execution or at any subsequent date during the lifetimes of the testator and the witnesses, may be made self-proved, and the testimony of the witnesses in the probate of the will may be made unnecessary by the acknowledgments of the will and the affidavits of the testator and the attesting witnesses; statute citation is Kan. Stat. Ann. § 59-606, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.

- **State:** Kansas
- **Witnesses required:** Such will shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of such party by two or more competent witnesses, who saw the testator subscribe or heard the testator acknowledge the will. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Self-proving affidavit:** Such will, at the time of its execution or at any subsequent date during the lifetimes of the testator and the witnesses, may be made self-proved, and the testimony of the witnesses in the probate of the will may be made unnecessary by the acknowledgments of the will and the affidavits of the testator and the attesting witnesses. _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Statute citation:** Kan. Stat. Ann. § 59-606 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> Every will, except an oral will as provided in K.S.A. 59-608 and amendments thereto, shall be in writing, and signed at the end by the party making the will, or by some other person in the presence and by the express direction of the testator. Such will shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of such party by two or more competent witnesses, who saw the testator subscribe or heard the testator acknowledge the will.

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Self-proving affidavit

> Such will, at the time of its execution or at any subsequent date during the lifetimes of the testator and the witnesses, may be made self-proved, and the testimony of the witnesses in the probate of the will may be made unnecessary by the acknowledgments of the will and the affidavits of the testator and the attesting witnesses. Such acknowledgments and affidavits shall be made before an officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds of conveyance and to administer oaths.

## Source

- https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_006_0006.html

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