The will contains a shaky unclear signature made by the testator

jcuurthht

The will contains a shaky unclear signature made by the testator,  This leads us to investigate if the will was correctly executed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

The Next Steps For You To Undertake    

Step One

 Please contact the witnesses to the document to confirm with them that they are happy to be contacted by the court regarding the execution of the will.    

Step Two 

You will then need to provide us with their contact details including full name, address, telephone number and E-mail (if they have one) so that we can send them the relevant form to be completed. Please send this information to contactprobate@justice.gov.uk or post to the address above.     Depending on their response we may require further information.

I received this response from the probate office. I have sent them the witnesses contact information. Does anyone have experience with this response from the probate office? I'm hoping it doesn't extend the process too much.

Flugelhorn

Oh what a nuisance! Not sure of the time scale but if the witnesses are happy to confirm the signature was the testators then all should be fine, worst that could happen is that they say the will is invalid - then it would revert to an older one or intestacy (which I suspect would have much the same outcome as the will??)

jcuurthht

Yeah intestacy would have the same outcome fortunately.

Flugelhorn

It is a curious thing that they have queried that - many people have very shaky signatures or even those that don't - how does anyone know that it is them?
Signatures are odd things  - either people sign thousands of things (I was a doctor so was signing all the time) and the thing just gets appalling and illegible or they rarely do it and it never looks the same twice. 
Just because it is shaky / unclear doesn't mean it wasn't done properly. My father had Parkinson's disease and his signature deteriorated from a dramatic flourish to an almost unreadable squiggle - it was still his and still valid, the one on his will was not great, fortunately I didn't have to probate it.
Hope you get some steer on the timescale for this as don't want to have to delay the house sale