New Uniform Law Permits Electronic Signatures on Estate Planning DocumentsNew Uniform Law Permits Electronic Signatures on Estate Planning Documents

Last year, in our article “Delaware Law Authorizes Electronic Execution of Trust Documents,”¹ we discussed a then-recently enacted Delaware statute, 12 Del. C. Section 3550 Electronic Execution of Documents (the Delaware Statute), which explicitly authorizes the electronic execution of trust agreements and other trust-related documents, such as decanting declarations, merger instruments and nonjudicial settlement agreements.

The Delaware Statute was the first of its kind, and as of the date of this article, no other state has enacted similar legislation authorizing the electronic execution of trust-related documents involving a single signatory. However, in July 2022, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (also kn...