In Maryland, there are pending legislative changes related to electronic wills and the remote notarization of estate planning documents, including the ratification of COVID-era remote executions, the authorization of future remote notarizations and revisions to the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts (RULONA) to expressly permit Remote Ink-Signed Notarizations (RINs). We plan to discuss the state of the law after the conclusion of the legislative session. We also plan to address what issues practitioners have encountered with remote executions during COVID, particularly after October 1 when the Secretary of State instructed notaries that RINs were forbidden, as well as what other states may have rushed to enact in the wake of the pandemic.

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