Your house, children, jewelry and art, these are all the typical items a person will think about when planning their Estate. However, what is often forgot about is a person’s digital assets. In a report on digital assets, Kimberly Whaley , defines digital assets as digital photos, word and […]
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Estate Planning for Your Digital Assets: Smart Planning for Your Digital Demise
[ 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 […]
21st Century Considerations for Estate Planning: Digital Assets
Image by FamZoo Staff, via Flickr Why do I need an estate plan? The answers can be as varied as the individuals who pose the question. Reasons often mentioned include preserving assets, protecting beneficiaries and reducing death taxes. Certainly, the purpose of the core document of any estate plan, […]
Estate Planning in a Digital World
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 […]
Digital Estate Planning – It’s Time to Plan for your Digital Assets
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 […]