Section 700.2502 - Execution; witnessed wills; holographic wills(1) Subject to section 1202, and except as provided in subsection (2) and in sections 2503, 2506, and 2513, a will is valid only if it is all of the following: (b) Signed by the testator or in the testator's name by some other individual in the testator's conscious presence and by the testator's direction.(c) Signed by at least 2 individuals, each of whom signed within a reasonable time after he or she witnessed either the signing of the will as described in subdivision (b) or the testator's acknowledgment of that signature or acknowledgment of the will.(2) A will that does not comply with subsection (1) is valid as a holographic will, whether or not witnessed, if it is dated, and if the testator's signature and the document's material portions are in the testator's handwriting.(3) Intent that the document constitutes a testator's will can be established by extrinsic evidence, including, for a holographic will, portions of the document that are not in the testator's handwriting.Amended by 2020, Act 246,s 2, eff. 11/5/2020.1998, Act 386, Eff. 4/1/2000.