Electronic Wills
November 27, 2007 – 5:51 amThere is a facinating article entitled The Promise of Electronic Wills in the Michigan Telecommunications and Technlogy Law Review blog urging the states to enact laws to allow electronic wills. The author, Keven DuComb, suggests that there should be a way for citizens to upload the documents onto a secure web database. Traditionally the concern over electronic wills has been the requirement that a will be signed by the person executing the will.
These days most of us conduct most of our daily business over the internet, including many transactions which traditionally required a signature. Why should wills be any different? There are plenty of technologies, techniques and procedures to assure that we are who we say we are in the on-line world, such as the security questions used by banks and credit card numbers.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. We already e-file our taxes, why not treat our preparations for death in the same way?
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