Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts14. Effect of marriage on wills
(1) Subject to this section, a will is revoked by the marriage of the testator.
(2) The marriage of a testator does not revoke the following:
(a) a disposition to the person to whom the testator is married at the time of his or her death;
(b) an appointment as executor, trustee, advisory trustee or guardian of the person to whom the testator is married at the time of his or her death; and
(c) a will made in exercise of a power of appointment but only in the case where the property appointed would not pass to the executor, administrator or the Public Trustee if the power of appointment was not exercised.
(3) A will made in contemplation of a marriage, whether or not that contemplation is expressed in the will, is not revoked by the solemnisation of that marriage.
(4) A will that is expressed to be made in contemplation of marriage generally is not revoked by the solemnisation of a marriage of the testator.