# Title 30.1 — Uniform Probate Code

## Chapter 30.1-37 — Uniform Electronic Wills Act

### § 30.1-37-01. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:
1. "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless,
optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.
2. "Electronic will" means a will executed electronically in compliance with subsection 1 of
section 30.1-37-04.
3. "Record" means information inscribed on a tangible medium or stored in an electronic
or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
4. "Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record to:
a. Execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or
b. Affix to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol or process.
5. "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the
United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States. The term includes a federally recognized Indian tribe.
6. "Will" includes a codicil and any testamentary instrument that merely appoints an
executor, revokes or revises another will, nominates a guardian, or expressly excludes
or limits the right of an individual or class to succeed to property of the decedent
passing by intestate succession.
### § 30.1-37-02. Law applicable to electronic will - Principles of equity.

An electronic will is a will for all purposes of the law of this state. The law of this state
applicable to wills and principles of equity apply to an electronic will, except as modified by this
chapter.
### § 30.1-37-03. Choice of law regarding execution.

A will executed electronically but not in compliance with subsection 1 of section 30.1-37-04
is an electronic will under this chapter if executed in compliance with the law of the jurisdiction
where the testator is:
1. Physically located when the will is signed; or
2. Domiciled or resides when the will is signed or when the testator dies.
### § 30.1-37-04. Execution of electronic will.

1. Subject to subsection 4 of section 30.1-37-06, an electronic will must be:
a. A record that is readable as text at the time of signing as provided under
subdivision b;
b. Signed by:
(1) The testator; or
(2) Another individual in the testator's name, in the testator's conscious
presence, and by the testator's direction; and
c. Either:
(1) Signed by at least two individuals, each of whom signed within a reasonable
time after witnessing:
(a) The signing of the will as provided under subdivision b; or
(b) The testator's acknowledgment of the signature as provided under
subdivision b or acknowledgment of the will; or
(2) Acknowledged by the testator before a notary public or other individual
authorized by law to take acknowledgments.
2. Intent of a testator that the record under subdivision a of subsection 1 be the testator's
electronic will may be established by extrinsic evidence.
### § 30.1-37-05. Revocation.

1. An electronic will may revoke all or part of a previous will.

2. All or part of an electronic will is revoked by:
a. A subsequent will that revokes all or part of the electronic will expressly or by
inconsistency; or
b. A physical act, if it is established by a preponderance of the evidence that the
testator, with the intent of revoking all or part of the will, performed the act or
directed another individual who performed the act in the testator's physical
presence.
### § 30.1-37-06. Electronic will attested and made self-proving at time of execution.

1. An electronic will may be simultaneously executed, attested, and made self-proving by
acknowledgment of the testator and affidavits of the witnesses.
2. The acknowledgment and affidavits under subsection 1 must be:
a. Made before an officer authorized to administer oaths under law of the state in
which execution occurs; and
b. Evidenced by the officer's certificate under official seal affixed to or logically
associated with the electronic will.
3. The acknowledgment and affidavits under subsection 1 must be in substantially the
following form:
I, ______________________, the testator, sign my name to this instrument this
__________ day of _______, _____, and being first sworn, declare to the undersigned
authority that I sign and execute this instrument as my electronic will and that I sign it
willingly or willingly direct another to sign for me, that I execute it as my free and
voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed, and that I am 18 years of age or
older, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue influence.
______________________________
Testator
We, __________________, _________________, the witnesses, sign our names
to this instrument, and being first sworn, declare to the undersigned authority that the
testator signs and executes this instrument as the testator's electronic will and that the
testator signs it willingly or willingly directs another to sign for the testator, and that
each of us, in the presence and hearing of the testator, signs this electronic will as
witness to the testator's signing, and that to the best of our knowledge the testator is
18 years of age or older, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue influence.
______________________________
Witness
______________________________
Witness
Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged before me by __________, the testator,
and subscribed and sworn to before me by ___________ and __________, witnesses,
this ________ day of ________________.
(SEAL) (Signed)______________________________
______________________________
(Official capacity of officer)
4. A signature physically or electronically affixed to an affidavit that is affixed to or
logically associated with an electronic will under this chapter is deemed a signature of
the electronic will under subsection 1 of section 30.1-37-04.
### § 30.1-37-07. Certification of paper copy.

An individual may create a certified paper copy of an electronic will by affirming under
penalty of perjury that a paper copy of the electronic will is a complete, true, and accurate copy
of the electronic will. If the electronic will is made self-proving, the certified paper copy of the will
must include the self-proving affidavits.
