Widows in Goa now require a certificate from deputy collector’s office for selling their properties as the Goa government has appointed the official as competent authority for examining and certifying the facts that ‘the conveyance documents and mutation of widow’s property is not done under coercion or undue influence in the suggested template.’ The state registrar cum head of the notary service Ashutosh Apte has issued a circular to the district registrars, civil registrars cum sub-registrars in that regard after he received the order from the revenue department.