Handwritten Name is Signature to Holographic Will

In Bennett v. Ditto, 2006 WL 2788167 (Ky.App.) the Kentucky intermediate appellate court has held that a document wholly in the decedent’s handwriting is a holographic will, finding that the decedent’s writing of her name as part of a sentence stating that the document was written by the decedent is a “subscription” of the document ( KRS 394.040 ), and that language appointing the executor, the date of writing, and signatures of two witnesses which appear after the handwritten name does not violate the statutory requirement that the document be signed at the end ( KRS 446.060(1) ).