<div dir="ltr">Joshua,<div>Thank you for sharing your practice with us as you blaze this trail. I often joke with my clients that the legal industry is stuck in the 1800s. It's good to see us inching forward. Would you be willing to share how you are handling the qualified custodian requirements? Are you serving as the qualified custodian or is that Simplifile's role?<div><br></div><div>Warmly,</div><div>Laura</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 11:29 AM Joshua McKarcher <<a href="mailto:josh@mckarcherlaw.com">josh@mckarcherlaw.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Today we will assist a client in signing the first Washington electronic will in our practice. We have found Simplifile’s RON platform as useful as its e-recording platform,
and I recommend it if you wish to find a solution for your practice. (They are incredibly open to feedback from the non-real-estate-closing-agent RON users among us.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you wish to play along, we read RCW 11.12.450 (particularly (3)(b) incorporating RCW 5.50) to permit two people on the videoconference with the testator, with no actual
remote online notary required (for the will at least), which two people can witness the e-will. If you read it otherwise, I would be grateful for the perspective.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Indeed, for whatever it’s worth, I share below the asterisks our “e-will signature block when e-signed under 5.50” (which is nothing spectacular, mostly just a reformatting
of the statute sub 3(b), with reader-friendly citations following “Pursuant to”). We will use Simplifile to e-sign in a videoconference. We intend to have our testator e-initial each page of the will for whatever that is worth to those still reading.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This has all turned out to be pretty straightforward, especially if you have done a non-will RON session or two first. All my best, Josh<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Joshua D. McKarcher<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">McKarcher Law PLLC<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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That I sign this instrument as my electronic will, I willingly sign it, I execute it as my voluntary act for the purposes expressed in this instrument, and I am 18 years of age or older, of sound mind, and under no constraint or undue influence.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Pursuant to RCW 11.12.450 and chapter 5.50 RCW, w<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt">e,
</span>Kaitlyn M. Landreth<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt"> and </span>Mary E. Briggs<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt">, witnesses, declare under penalty of perjury under the law of Washington that the following is true and correct: That the Testator signed
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