By Suzana Popovic-Montag ( May 30, 2025, 11:29 AM EDT) -- The will validation power is a potent tool, empowering the courts to save testamentary documents that do not comply with the statutory formalities of execution applicable to wills. Most cases where the court is asked to use the will validation power involve one of two types of documents — non-compliant instruments created or altered by the deceased, or non-compliant wills created by the deceased’s lawyer, premised on the deceased’s instructions....