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Remote Online Notarization: How it Works in Pennsylvania

Learn how estate plan documents such as a will or power of attorney can now be signed and notarized online in Pennsylvania, and see how mine were executed using remote online notarization. **************************************** Links to items mentioned in this video: Remote Online Notarization of Estate Plans in Pennsylvania 2020 (blog post) ► https://www.elderlawofpgh.com/2020/05... Pennsylvania Act 15 ► https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/... The Steps to Becoming an Electronic or Remote Notary in Pennsylvania ► https://www.dos.pa.gov/OtherServices/... to Becoming an Electronic Remote Notary Public revised 4-20-2020.pdf Approved Remote Online Notarization (RON)Vendors ► https://www.dos.pa.gov/OtherServices/... **************************************** Pennsylvania Act 15, signed into law April 20, 2020, authorizes notary publics to notarize documents using a state-approved audio-visual connection, rather than in person. The authorized use of “remote online notarization” under Act 15 expires 60 days after the end of the COVID-19 disaster emergency. This change allows Pennsylvania residents to “sign” estate planning documents – such as wills, trusts, and powers of attorney – electronically from home, if they have an electronic device (such as a laptop computer) equipped with a camera and microphone. In this video, I explain how remote online notarization works in Pennsylvania and tell you about how I got my own estate planning documents – my will, power of attorney, and health care directives – electronically signed and officially notarized. And you’ll even see some of that online session. Under Pennsylvania law, some documents require a signature that’s been notarized. For example, there is my power of attorney. It allows someone else to manage my affairs, pay my bills, authorize medical help – all kinds of vital things – if I can’t do those things myself, because maybe I’ve been in an accident, or developed dementia. My POA won’t be valid under Pennsylvania law unless I have signed it in front of two witnesses and a notary public, who validates that I really am who I say I am, and that I actually signed the document. Up until now, the law required me to be in the physical presence of the witnesses and the notary in order for my signature to be notarized. Now obviously, physical presence is a problem during the current pandemic because of stay-at-home orders, or people are just not comfortable being exposed to others. As an elder law attorney, my clients may be in a hospital or nursing home and no one is allowed in. So it can be impossible to get these vital documents signed if you can’t be in someone else’s physical presence. That’s where Act 15 makes a huge difference, allowing estate planning documents to be witnessed and notarized by an online connection, rather than in person. As this video explains, though, there are a number of requirements that must be met before remote online notarization is valid. For example, the notary has to file an application and be approved by the Pennsylvania Department of State. You can find the steps to becoming approved, and a link to the application, at one of the links listed above. The notary also has to use approved technology to confirm the identity of a signer, and to have the signing itself. Products like Zoom, Skype, and FaceTime are NOT acceptable. Instead, the DOS has a list on its website of approved vendors, and you want to make sure that the vendor is approved for remote online notarization. By the end of the video, my estate planning documents have been electronically witnessed and notarized, and you can see what the electronic signatures and notarization looks like. As the video emphasizes, Act 15 is temporary, though legislation is pending in Pennsylvania that would make remote online notarization a permanent fixture of Pennsylvania law. Like telemedicine, tele-law may become a new way that lawyers serve their clients.