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

For Nebraska, witnesses required is is required to be signed by at least two individuals each of whom witnessed either the signing or the testator's acknowledgment of the signature or of the will; statute citation is Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-2327, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.

- **State:** Nebraska
- **Witnesses required:** is required to be signed by at least two individuals 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:** Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-2327 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Statute citation:** Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-2328 _(per nebraskalegislature.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, the material provisions, and an indication of the date of signing are in the handwriting of the testator _(per nebraskalegislature.gov, not stated by the source above)_

## What the source says

> every will is required to be in writing signed by the testator or in the testator's name by some other individual in the testator's presence and by his direction, and is required to be signed by at least two individuals 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

nebraskalegislature.gov says statute citation is **Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-2327**, as of 2026-09-02.

> every will is required to be in writing signed by the testator or in the testator's name by some other individual in the testator's presence and by his direction, and is required to be signed by at least two individuals each of whom witnessed either the signing or the testator's acknowledgment of the signature or of the will.

Source: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2327

nebraskalegislature.gov says statute citation is **Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-2328**, as of 2026-09-02.

> 30-2327 is valid as a holographic will, whether or not witnessed, if the signature, the material provisions, and an indication of the date of signing are in the handwriting of the testator and, in the absence of such indication of date, if such instrument is the only such instrument or contains no inconsistency with any like instrument or if such date is determinable from the contents of such instrument, from extrinsic circumstances, or from any other evidence.

Source: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2328


## Source

- https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2327
- https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2328

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