California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Estate of Collins, 149 Cal.Rptr. 65, 84 Cal.App.3d 928 (Cal. App. 1978):
In this case there has been at best an ineffectual attempt to make a testamentary disposition which cannot be carried out without compliance with statutory requirements governing the making of wills (see Noble v. Learned, 153 Cal. 245, 251-252, 94 P. 1047; see also Cohen v. Meyers, 6 Cal.App.3d 878, 880-882, 86 Cal.Rptr. 456).
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