SB1138 Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania SB1138 updates estate planning laws to include electronic wills… (Introduced)

SB1138

Adopting Uniform Acts: in short title and definitions, further providing for definitions; in wills, further providing for validity of execution and for revocation of a will; providing for electronic wills; in dispositions independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills and grant of letters, further providing for self-proved wills; providing for uniform electronic estate planning documents; and making conforming changes.

Pennsylvania SB1138 updates estate planning laws to include electronic wills and non-testamentary documents.

Pennsylvania SB1138 amends the state's laws to incorporate electronic wills and non-testamentary estate planning documents. It defines terms such as "electronic will," "electronic record," and "electronic signature," and outlines the requirements for their execution and validity. The bill also specifies conditions for witnessing and attesting to electronic documents, and addresses the retention and admissibility of electronic records in legal proceedings.

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