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Register-of-wills bill to let certain estate notices publish online prompts industry pushback
Summary
A bill to let certain estate notices be posted on the central Registers of Wills website instead of paid local newspaper publication divided registers and probate officials, who backed a narrow change, and newspaper groups, who warned of harm to local journalism.
Delegate Elizabeth Embry told the Judicial Proceedings Committee that House Bill 623 would permit certain probate notices to be published on a central, free Registers of Wills website rather than being paid for in local newspapers.
Embry said the notices serve primarily creditors and beneficiaries — not the general public — and that the costs (often $100–$300) fall on grieving families. “These are notices that exist solely to reach 2 categories of people. Creditors… and beneficiaries,” Embry said, arguing the centralized site is easier for distant…
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