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SECTION 3. OF THE COMPETENCE OF WITNESSES AND OF CERTAIN DESIGNATIONS IN TESTAMENTS

Art. 1581. Persons incompetent to be witnesses

            A person cannot be a witness to any testament if the person is insane, blind, under the age of sixteen, or unable to sign his name.

            Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 2025, No. 30, §1.



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