Volume 74
Public Law 86–674
To amend the Act of March 3, 1901, with respect to the time within which a caveat to a will must be filed in the District of Columbia.
Approved July 14, 1960
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act of March 3, 1901, with respect to the time within which a caveat to a will must be filed in the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 137 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 19–309), is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 137. Caveat.—
After a will has been admitted to probate, any person in interest shall have six months from the date of the order of probate in which to file a caveat to said will, praying that the probate thereof be revoked.”
Sec. 2.
The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall apply only to wills admitted to probate after the date of enactment of this Act.
Approved July 14, 1960.