Charles Explorer logo
🇬🇧

Digital wills or no paper - no problem (part II)

Publication at Faculty of Law |
2022

Abstract

Digital wills (whether in the form of a video-record- ed will, a handwritten will on a tablet, etc.) are now invalid under Czech law, or at least their validity is doubted in our jurisdiction. However, foreign legis- lation, court decisions, and doctrine show that such wills may not only be allowed but may also be very beneficial to the testator, the survivors, and the au- thorities conducting the probate (inheritance) pro- ceedings.

A comprehensive analysis of digital wills - with regard to their potential application in do- mestic inheritance law - is addressed in this article.