{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-84-84-912","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 84, § 84-912","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in the Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act:\n\n1. “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical,\n\ndigital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar\n\ncapabilities;\n\n2. “Electronic record” means a record created, generated, sent,\n\ncommunicated, received, or stored by electronic means;\n\n3. “Electronic signature” means an electronic symbol or process\n\nattached to or logically associated with a record and executed or\n\nadopted by a person with the intent to sign the record;\n\n4. “Information” includes data, text, images, codes, computer\n\nprograms, software, and databases;\n\n5. “Non-testamentary estate planning document” means a record\n\nrelating to estate planning that is readable as text at the time of\n\nsigning and is not a will or contained in a will. Non-testamentary\n\nestate planning document includes:\n\na. a record readable as text at the time of signing that\n\ncreates, exercises, modifies, releases, or revokes:\n\n(1) a trust instrument,\n\n(2) a trust power that under the terms of the trust\n\nrequires a signed record,\n\n(3) a memorandum or certification of a trust,\n\n(4) a durable power of attorney,\n\n(5) an agent’s certification of the validity of a\n\npower of attorney and the agent’s authority,\n\n(6) a power of appointment,\n\n(7) an advance directive including a health-care\n\npower of attorney, directive to physicians,\n\nnatural death statement, living will, and medical\n\nor physician order for life-sustaining treatment,\n\n(8) a record directing disposition of an individual’s\n\nbody after death,\n\n(9) a nomination of a guardian for the signing\n\nindividual,\n\n(10) a nomination of a guardian for a minor child or\n\ndisabled adult child,\n\n(11) a mental health treatment declaration, or\n\n(12) any other record intended to carry out an\n\nindividual’s intent regarding property or health\n\ncare while incapacitated or on death, and\n\nb. Non-testamentary estate planning document does not\n\ninclude a deed of real property or certificate of\n\ntitle for a motor vehicle, watercraft, or aircraft;\n\n6. “Person” means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit\n\nentity, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or\n\ninstrumentality, or other legal entity;\n\n7. “Power of attorney” means a record that grants authority to\n\nan agent to act in place of the principal, even if the term is not\n\nused in the record;\n\n8. “Record” means information:\n\na. inscribed on a tangible medium, or\n\nb. stored in an electronic or other medium and\n\nretrievable in perceivable form;\n\n9. “Security procedure” means a procedure to verify that an\n\nelectronic signature, record, or performance is that of a specific\n\nperson or to detect a change or error in an electronic record,\n\nincluding a procedure that uses an algorithm, code, identifying word\n\nor number, encryption, callback, or other acknowledgment procedure;\n\n10. “Settlor” means a person, including a testator, that\n\ncreates or contributes property to a trust;\n\n11. “Sign” means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt\n\na record:\n\na. execute or adopt a tangible symbol, or\n\nb. attach to or logically associate with the record an\n\nelectronic signature;\n\n12. “State” means a state of the United States, the District of\n\nColumbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or other\n\nterritory or possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United\n\nStates. The term includes a federally recognized Indian tribe;\n\n13. “Terms of a trust” means:\n\na. except as provided in subparagraph b of this\n\nparagraph, the manifestation of the settlor’s intent\n\nregarding a trust’s provisions as:\n\n(1) expressed in the trust instrument, or\n\n(2) established by other evidence that would be\n\nadmissible in a judicial proceeding; or\n\nb. the trust’s provisions as established, determined, or\n\namended by:\n\n(1) a trustee or other person in accordance with\n\napplicable law,\n\n(2) a court order, or\nagraph b of this\n\nparagraph, the manifestation of the settlor’s intent\n\nregarding a trust’s provisions as:\n\n(1) expressed in the trust instrument, or\n\n(2) established by other evidence that would be\n\nadmissible in a judicial proceeding; or\n\nb. the trust’s provisions as established, determined, or\n\namended by:\n\n(1) a trustee or other person in accordance with\n\napplicable law,\n\n(2) a court order, or\n\n(3) a nonjudicial settlement agreement;\n\n14. “Trust instrument” means an instrument executed by the\n\nsettlor or other person authorized by law that contains terms of the\n\ntrust including any amendments; and\n\n15. “Will” includes a codicil and a testamentary instrument\n\nthat appoints an executor, revokes or revises another will,\n\nnominates a guardian, or expressly excludes or limits the right of\n\nan individual or class to succeed to property of the decedent\n\npassing by intestate succession.","path":["OK Code","Title 84"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os84.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"f4ddb913770c2c223607856767907676f69d45b94e7f5978e588969d64a233c3","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-84-84-911","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-84-84-913"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}