Nevada and Indiana already have laws allowing e-signatures; Florida and Arizona are set to adopt similar laws next year. Other states are expected to follow the commission’s guidelines.

Online wills are nothing new. Rocket Lawyer and Legal Zoom offer them, along with scores of other legal documents and services. FreeWill, which I wrote about last year, put a charitable spin on will creation, creating a platform to name charities in a will. A company called Tomorrow is trying to make legal documents like wills more engaging by asking people to go through the process with partners or family members.

But in all of these examples, at the end of the online experience, however easy and clean it may be, the user still has to print out the will and have it signed by a notary and witnessed by two people. Otherwise, the will is not worth the computer paper it was printed on.

After a will is signed and notarized, it has to be stored in a safe place, because uploading it back to the website invalidates it.

“We actually don’t allow you to re-upload it because a facsimile isn’t a legitimate will,” said Dave Hanley , founder and chief executive of Tomorrow. “We tell you print it out and store it somewhere findable and not to put it in the safe where you’re the only one with the combination, since you’ll be dead.”