December 14, 2024
Trusts & Estates chair Suzanne Brown Walsh was recently quoted in an article by the Wall Street Journal titled, "Yes to Text Messages, No to Video: What Counts as a Will," which discusses the different types of documents and media that qualify and do not qualify as valid wills.
As more and more processes become digitized, estate law still favors physical, pen-on-paper wills. In the article, Suzy emphasizes that almost half of Americans do not have wills at all, but that the process could be made much simpler through the expansion of e-wills. The caveat, according to Suzy, is that while e-wills would make estate planning more accessible, the prevalence of AI and deepfakes could set back the progress of digitizing estate planning.
Suzy often speaks on the topic of electronic wills and digital assets and has been quoted in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Bloomberg BNA’s Electronic Commerce Law Report, The Chattanooga Times Free Press, The Kansas City Star and by NBC News, CBS News and Agence France-Presse.
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