Did you know the average American has $55,000 in digital assets? That’s something definitely worth including in your estate plan. Here’s how to get started. Getty Images If you have a normal corporate job and don’t own a website, you may be thinking you don’t have to worry about […]
More and more of our daily activities are moving online. All aspects of our lives –whether financial, social, work or leisure — increasingly have a presence on our computers or the Internet. Smart estate planning, therefore, includes addressing how to handle digital assets. Historically, estate planning consisted primarily of […]
In the year and a half since I last wrote about planning for digital assets not much has changed in Massachusetts. Our state is still one of a handful of states that has not enacted the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA) , although there is […]
A relationship break-up made Theresa Shaw question what happens to our digital assets once we die. "I had to replace my phone and was going through all these digital accounts I had and setting them up and I thought ‘There has to be a better way’," she says. "I […]
In Part 1 of ‘Bitcoin After Death’ we discussed the ownership of cryptocurrencies and the challenges associated with leaving crypto assets to the next generation. In The Digital Afterlife , we discussed some practical tips for dealing with digital assets in your estate and considered the difficulties for executors […]