The new normal for signing estate planning documents in Illinois that began with Governor Pritzker’s March 26, 2020, Executive Order (No. 2020-14) is about to change. The Order authorized both the ...

In response to the crisis caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic, many states are authorizing the temporary use of remote notarization and, in some cases, remote witnessing for estate planning ...

It’s been possible to create wills online for quite some time, but the thing is that after you create a will, you probably have to get it notarized — when a government official, a notary, verifies ...

Traditionally, an enforceable will has to be signed in ink in front of witnesses. Nevertheless, e‑wills, as proposed in the Uniform Electronic Wills Act (UETA), offers a path to allow wills that have ...

Recent events, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic, have forced the debate on electronic wills, notaries and signatures back to the forefront of legal conversation. Ironically, in the midst of this ...

On June 26, 2017, Florida Gov. Rick Scott vetoed the state’s Electronic Wills Act (the Act) before it was to go into effect on July 1. The Act would have allowed remote technology to assist in the ...

Nicole Dieker has been writing about personal finance for nearly a decade. She's also the author of The Biographies of Ordinary People, a Millennial-era Little Women. April 16, 2020 Add as a preferred ...