{"id":2068,"date":"2011-04-25T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/25\/witness-not-a-beneficiary"},"modified":"2011-04-25T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T12:26:00","slug":"witness-not-a-beneficiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/25\/witness-not-a-beneficiary\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness Not a Beneficiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses on a document do not have to be related to the person signing the document. It a &#8220;genealogy legend&#8221; that they are. For wills, witnesses usually cannot be heirs or beneficiaries of the will. A witness just has to be of the age of majority and know the person signing the document. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1504GT\">Check out GenealogyBank&#8217;s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!<\/A><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses on a document do not have to be related to the person signing the document. It a &#8220;genealogy legend&#8221; that they are. For wills, witnesses usually cannot be heirs or beneficiaries of the will. A witness just has to be of the age of majority and know the person signing the document. That&#8217;s it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}