Arizona Advance Directive Registry is Moving
If you signed your health care directives with Fleming & Curti, PLC, in the past decade or so, you probably already know about the Arizona advance directive registry. It gives you an easy — and free — way to store your health care power of attorney, living will or pre-hospital medical care directive online. For […]
Utah Adopts Nation’s Broadest Electronic Will Law (So Far)
Perhaps you have needed an excuse not to get your estate planning completed. “I’ll wait,” you might have said to yourself, “until I can sign a will digitally.” Well, we have good news: the nation’s broadest electronic will law was just adopted — in Utah. We live in a time of anxiety about human contact. […]
Cellphone File Admitted as Electronic Will in Michigan Probate Proceeding
The law permitting a digital or electronic will is rapidly developing. We have written about the idea of an electronic will before, advising readers not to rely on this developing law. A recent appellate court decision approved what appears to be the first purely electronic will in American legal history. Even as electronic will laws […]
Arizona Adopts Electronic Will Law Effective Next Year
Perhaps you are waiting to sign your will. You might be thinking that you should be able to sign an electronic will. Maybe you want to hold off until then. Well, you will only have another year to wait. What is an electronic will? So what is the big deal, anyway? Can’t you sign your […]
Would Arizona Courts Recognize Your “Digital Will”?
There’s a good chance you have used an electronic signature lately. Beyond credit card slips and package receipts, even real estate contracts are digital these days. Can you sign your estate planning documents electronically? Would a “digital will” be valid in Arizona right now? What is a digital will? Before deciding whether a digital will […]
The iWill — Might It Be the Future of Probate and Estate Planning?
FEBRUARY 24, 2014 VOLUME 21 NUMBER 8 News reached us this month of a November, 2013, probate court order in Australia admitting an unusual will to probate, and it made us wonder if we should anticipate a digital future for estate planning. An Australian probate decision would have to be pretty unusual to get noticed […]
