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If you read the acknowledgement and release form on a Georgia Petition to Probate Will, it actually says that you have received a copy of the entire Petition and the Will. So no, it is actually a form of perjury to sign the consent without having received copies of all of those documents. I really wish that people who are trying to probate Wills would stop sending out consent pages without the Wills.
By signing that consent form, you are agreeing to have the Will admitted to probate and effectively giving up your rights to complain about it. Before you do that, you really should insist on getting a copy. There is no good reason that you shouldn't be given one. You may trust your aunt, and the Will may be fine, but in this day of electronic copies and email it shouldn't take more than a few minutes for someone to be able to send you a copy of the Will, and you are entitled to see it and have a chance to have your own attorney review it if you have any questions about it and how it affects you. So, if I were your attorney and you had hired me, I would tell you NOT to sign the acknowledgement without getting a copy of the Will. If the Will transfers property to a trust, and if the trust is separate, you should also insist on seeing that. There is no good reason not to do so.
Best wishes to you and my condolences on your loss.
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