Kentucky To Consider E-Recording Reforms

The past two decades have seen a paradigm shift in the way states sign, record, and notarize documents. Once hindered by paper document and "wet" signature requirements, the modern recordation process in many states has evolved to allow recording of real estate records electronically. States first began adopting laws to equate "e-signatures" with pen-and-paper signatures in the mid-1990s, and in 1999, the Uniform Law Commission created a model state law – the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) – to broadly accept all forms of e-signatures. The next year, Congress passed the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN) to nationalize the use of e-records and e-signatures.