If you're leaving your house, car, and boat to your daughter Amie, you'll make that gift in one of these paragraphs. After you've made specific gifts, you'll make a gift of your residuary estate. Your residuary estate is everything that's left over after you've made all your specific gifts. After you've made a distribution of all your property, your will must be executed correctly in order to be legally enforceable. In general, this means it must be signed at the end, and in front of the legally required number of witnesses.
Most states require two witnesses, while a few others require three.
Having more witnesses than required isn't a problem, but having too few witnesses can invalidate your will. That means you must tell your witnesses that the document you're signing is your last will and testament, and that you're asking them to sign it as witnesses. The witnesses don't have to know what your will says, but they do have to know that it is your will. Sign only the original of your will, so that if you decide to change or revoke it later, you'll have to destroy only the original. Signed copies could turn up later and make for a confusing and expensive situation as the court tries to decide which will is the valid one.