Digital Parents, Digital Grandparents, Digital Death, Digital Estate Planning, Identity Theft, End-of-Life Services Technology for all "How do I send a Facebook message?" "Can you help me with the computer?" "I can’t get into my phone!" Sound familiar? For many millennials, older relatives have spent a large percentage of […]
“It can take 6 months for someone to be officially recognized as deceased by the Social Security Administration…this makes grieving loved ones a prime target for identity theft,” explained Christopher W. Huziak, CEO & Founder of Final Security LLC. Today Final Security, LLC launched an unprecedented service to protect […]
So much of our lives is online these days, but surprisingly few of us plan for what happens to our online accounts and assets when we are no longer around. Some of your Instagram followers may never notice that you’ve stopped posting vacation pictures, or stop to wonder why. […]
[ NOTE: I wrote the first version of this article in 2010. The article was one of the earliest practical articles on digital estate planning and, in its own way, was influential. It is also one of many of my articles that can no longer be found on the […]
Joan Mitchell in her studio in Vétheuil, France, 1983. Photo by Robert Freson, Joan Mitchell Foundation Archives. © Joan Mitchell Foundation By Natalie Koza and Eleni Demestihas Traditionally, when someone died, their executor would follow a standard process to settle their estate: locate the will, go through file cabinets […]