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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 700.1013

  • Account: means an arrangement under a terms-of-service agreement in which the digital custodian carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of the user or provides goods or services to the user. See Michigan Laws 700.1002
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Catalogue of electronic communications: means information that identifies each person with which a user has had an electronic communication, the time and date of the communication, and the electronic address of the person. See Michigan Laws 700.1002
  • Court: means the probate court or, when applicable, the circuit court. See Michigan Laws 700.1002
  • Digital custodian: means a person that carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of a user. See Michigan Laws 700.1002
  • Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Michigan Laws 700.1002
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Trust: means that term as defined in section 1107 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Trustee: means that term as defined in section 1107 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 700.1002
  • User: means a person that has an account with a digital custodian. See Michigan Laws 700.1002
    Unless otherwise ordered by the court, directed by the user, or provided in a trust, a digital custodian shall disclose to a trustee that is not an original user of an account a catalogue of electronic communications sent or received by an original or successor user and stored, carried, or maintained by the digital custodian in the account of the trust and any digital assets, other than the content of electronic communications, in which the trust has a right or interest if the trustee gives the digital custodian all of the following:
    (a) A written request for disclosure in physical or electronic form.
    (b) A certificate of the trust under section 7913 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700.7913.
    (c) A certification of the trustee, under penalty of perjury, that the trust exists and that the trustee is a currently acting trustee of the trust.
    (d) If requested by the digital custodian, any of the following:
    (i) A number, username, address, or other unique subscriber or account identifier assigned by the digital custodian to identify the trust’s account.
    (ii) Evidence linking the account to the trust.