Article Review: Probate Law Meets the Digital Age

Sergio Pareja has written a review that discusses Naomi Cahn’s new article entitled, Probate Law Meets the Digital Age.  Provided below is an excerpt from the review:

Recently, estate planners and scholars have begun to grapple with the problem of transferring digital assets at death. In Probate Law Meets the Digital Age, Professor Naomi Cahn adds an interesting new dimension to this relatively new issue. She focuses on the effect of the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”) on estate administration. Although the SCA does not affect a fiduciary’s ability to distribute assets once they are discovered, it affects the fiduciary’s ability to examine on-line accounts to discover those assets.

For the rest of the favorable review, see Sergio Pareja, The Impact of Federal Law on a Decedent’s Digital Assets, JOTWELL, March 9, 2015.