Citing uncertainties and sometimes vague instructions, the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section is supporting a glitch bill addressing lingering questions from state laws that went into effect earlier this year allowing signing of wills and online notarizations.

The section received Bar Board of Governors authority to support the changes at the board’s October meeting.

One key issue, according to Angela Adams, chair of the section’s Ad Hoc Committee on Electronic Wills, is while the law addresses standards for remote notary operations, it is vague when notaries supervise witnesses signing documents that don’t require notarization.