Wills in the Digital Age
Is an e-will, which exists only in a computer file, just a manifestation of another technological advance than can be accommodated by our statute of wills, or does it really test the boundaries of the law?
March 06, 2018 at 02:35 PM
9 minute read
A column in the New York Law Journal in 1977 titled "Wills in the Mechanical Age" discussed the then novel question of whether a photostatic reproduction of a testamentary instrument complied with New York's statutory requirement that it must be "in writing."
The simple answer was that the means of preparation of the document were not determinative. Rather, it was its purposeful adoption as an original by the testator that controlled.
Little did the author of the column envision that 40 years later she would consider the admissibility of a will in the electronic age.
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