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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Hoffstadt finds that the probate court erred in refusing to probate a document as constituting a testator's will. The probate court was not limited to the four corners of the proffered document in its analysis of whether the drafter exhibited testamentary intent, as extrinsic evidence is key to determining a drafter's intent. There was clear and convincing evidence that the drafter intended an unwitnessed letter she wrote almost 20 years before her death to be testamentary. Reversed.
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