Executors often playing ‘document detective’ ‘it’s like a scavenger hunt,’ says founder Sharon Hartung, Jessie Vaid, Sachin Bhalla As the dead increasingly leave more of a digital footprint than a paper trail, tools are emerging to assist the new reality imposed on estate planning and administration. Baby boomers are […]
Andrew Paterson is a Partner with Murray Beith Murray I don’t think Mark Twain would have made a very good executor in today’s environment. His belief that you ‘get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please’ doesn’t quite fit in with the duties and responsibilities […]
Background “Water is a useful metaphor for digital assets; they are just as fluid, ever-changing, and dynamic, which presents both challenges and opportunities for executors and those who provide services to them. And, like water, digital assets can simply slip through one’s fingers without care” – Daniel Nelson, “The […]
Sharon Hartung kindly provided me with a digital advanced reader copy of her most recent book: ‘ DIGITAL EXECUTOR. Unraveling the New Path for Estate Planning’. You may recall my review of Sharon’s first book on the subject, ‘YOUR DIGITAL UNDERTAKER: Exploring Death in the Digital Age in Canada’. […]
California’s Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act allows a California testator to give an executor, administrator, trustee, or other fiduciary authority over his or her digital assets upon the testator’s death or incapacity. The Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act can be found in sections […]