Do you know what will happen to your digital "stuff" when you die. No. Rest assured, you are not alone. This increasingly important but relatively unknown subject involves what happens to all of your accounts, social media, emails, photos, and documents and how you will be remembered in your […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new report highlights the extent of the distress caused by being cut off from digital assets when family members die or become incapacitated. Items such as social media accounts , photos and emails have become a common part of estate planning and administration in […]
These days, when so much of our lives are spent on the Internet and social media, and our digital footprint is more vivid than ever, we are probably worried about what will happen to all of our stored and valuable information after death. The thousands of photos we have […]
There is no disputing the fact that we now live in a digital and technological world. Here’s what you need to know about estate planning in a digital world. Personal diaries have been replaced by blogs and social media accounts, books replaced by kindles, bank cards replaced by digital […]
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 […]