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What are the procedures in mutating the property based on Will or What to do if some one raise objection to mutation based on Will ? See what Kerala High court says .

First of all I would like to draw the significant importance of the will and other documents, A will is one of the most solemn documents known to law. Unlike other documents, the testator who had departed the temporal state cannot be called to confirm the genuinity of the Will. Hence trustworthy and unimpeachable evidence is insisted to establish the genuinity and authenticity of a will.The onus of proving the will is on the propounder. Regarding the statutory norms: Section 63 of the Indian Succession Act deals with the procedure to proof the execution of a will.The same need to be proved atleast through one of the attesting witness, if the attesting witness are alive. Hence the statutory provision make it incumbent for a document required by law to be attested to have its execution proved by atleast one of the attesting witness, if alive and subject to the process of the court conducting the proceedings involved and is capable of giving evidence. But the above said statutory norms is...