Not a will.

Paragraph 2 of Article 17 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Law of Succession stipulates: "A self-made will shall be written by the testator, signed and marked with the year, month and day." According to this regulation, the requirements for writing a will are:

(1) The contents of the will must be written and signed by the testator;

(2) The testator must personally write the full text of the will with a pen;

(3) The year, month and day must be indicated, and all three items are indispensable.

You don't need a witness to write your own will.

However, the validity of printing a will and then just signing it, indicating the year, month and date, is controversial, depending on the specific situation. If there is evidence to the contrary that the printed will is not what I really mean, it is likely to be considered invalid. If there are several wills, the notarized will is the most effective; If there are several notarized wills, the one with the last date is the most effective. It's best to write it yourself, with personal handwriting as evidence.

Actual cases tried by the court:

Because printed wills are as easy to be forged as wills written by agents, the standard of evidence for the authenticity of printed wills should be higher than that of self-written wills. If there is not enough evidence to prove that it was printed by the testator himself or by others, it should generally be considered as writing a will. According to the third paragraph of Article 17 of the Inheritance Law: "When an agent writes a will, it shall be witnessed by more than two witnesses, and one of them shall write the book on his behalf, indicating the year, month and day, and shall be signed by the agent, other witnesses and the testator."

In many cases,

Printing the will can't prove that I printed it myself.

Without the signatures of witnesses and library representatives,

Therefore, the court ruled that the will was invalid. (This is the same as the judgment I have read. )