In California, you can revoke a will by “physical act.” This means exactly what you think it means: burn the original, tear it up, cross out all the words, whatever.
If you keep the document and after your death no one can find it, there’s a rebuttable presumption that you destroyed it and it counts as revoked. The bar review lecturer summarizes this as “can’t find it? Got to assume they ate it.”
But mostly I really like the idea of a probate hearing arguing about whether a will was in effect, where the verb is constantly bleeped out. “The will was in effect until the testator [REDACTED] the document…” Nobody knows what happened, but it was very effectively destroyed.
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