Jusletter IT

The issue of the e-will in the Polish law and in the international jurisprudence

  • Authors: Małgorzata Kiełtyka / Paweł Dyrduł
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: Poland
  • Field of law: Information Technology, Personal Right, Inheritance law
  • Citation: Małgorzata Kiełtyka / Paweł Dyrduł, The issue of the e-will in the Polish law and in the international jurisprudence, in: Jusletter IT 26 September 2018
This article concentrates on the issue of the use of new technologies in the inheritance law. The focus is on inheritance under a will. The attention has been drawn to the existence of electronic wills in different legal systems. In addition, the considerations have been enriched with examples from international jurisprudence. The whole article focuses on hypothetical considerations concerning the future form and usefulness of e-will (electronic last will) in the Polish law. In order to confirm the theses presented in the article, two surveys were conducted – on a national and European scale. The results are published in this work. All the deliberations carried out in the article focus primarily on formal issues related to the inheritance under the will, including a hypothetical analysis of the formal and legal essence of e-wills.

Table of contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Electronic last will in selected jurisdictions
  • 3. The e-will in the international jurisprudence
  • 4. Last will in the Polish legal system – terminology, validity
  • 5. The forms of the last will in the Polish law – an oral last will in the light of new technologies
  • 6. Legal problems of the video last will
  • 7. Video last will in the legislation of European countries – a survey
  • 8. The video last will in Polish law – de lege ferenda proposals based on survey
  • 9. E-will – legislative challenges
  • 10. Conclusions

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