Dear PAO,

My sister traveled to the United States to arrange the burial of our Filipino grandparents. Among the items she retrieved from their possessions was an old, handwritten last will and testament. The will divided their properties in the Philippines among their children and other descendants. Both Lolo and Lola signed it, and it was notarized. Is such a last will and testament valid here in the Philippines?

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