An Australian court recently ruled that a will typed in the notes section of an iPhone is valid. The will was prepared by a man who committed suicide shortly thereafter. The will was not witnessed nor was it signed. Nonetheless, the court deemed it valid.
Several points:
1. Thanks to Charlie Young, the attorney who represented the estate of the deceased, for sending me this news.
2. Such a will in Ohio would not be valid because it did not meet the requirements of being witnessed by 2 individuals and signed by the deceased. Presumably, if 2 witnesses and the deceased had signed their names electronically, it would have a chance of being valid in Ohio. I would not want to represent the test case, though.
3. If the will had been written on a Microsoft tablet, it would most likely not have been found valid because no one would have figured out how to use the tiles in Windows 8.
