MIRIAM A. VOGEL, J.
In 1983, the Legislature eliminated the requirement that witnesses to the execution of a will had to sign the will in the testator's presence. The question in this case is whether the Legislature nevertheless meant to prohibit a postdeath attestation necessitated by a witness's concededly inadvertent failure to sign a will at the time it was executed. We conclude that, had the Legislature intended a temporal limit, it would have said so and that...
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