{"id":10031,"date":"2023-10-08T16:48:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T20:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10031"},"modified":"2023-10-08T16:51:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T20:51:31","slug":"will-with-electronic-signature-invalid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10031","title":{"rendered":"Will with Electronic Signature Not Valid (Pa. Super.)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Superior Court has affirmed that a will with an electronic signature, affixed by the decedent using DocVerify system during a videoconference with two witnesses and a notary public, is not a valid will, which requires the testator&#8217;s &#8220;manual signature.&#8221;  <em>Kittler Estate<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A20028-23o%20-%20105680668240319983.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2023 PA Super 180<\/a>, ___ A.3d ___ (9\/25\/2023), <em>aff&#8217;g<\/em> 1 Fid.Rep.4th 53 (Lancaster O.C. 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court has affirmed that a will with an electronic signature, affixed by the decedent using DocVerify system during a videoconference with two witnesses and a notary public, is not a valid will, which requires the testator&#8217;s &#8220;manual signature.&#8221; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10031\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1],"tags":[787,484],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","category-uncategorized","tag-electronic-signature","tag-wills","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10034,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions\/10034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}