Digital assets represent an aspect of your estate that needs protection as much as the more traditional assets in your estate. In fact, someone who is acting as a personal representative, a conservator or a trustee, has a legal duty to gather and protect all the assets of a decedent or protected individual. <\/p>\n
Your personal representative may not have the power to obtain access to your online accounts that may contain valuable and sentimental photos of your family, pets, posts on social media, emails and bank account statements. This is because several online providers have differing policies or terms-of-service contracts concerning whether they will give fiduciaries access to online accounts. For instance, the terms-of-service agreement for Yahoo claims to give the company the power to remove an account upon the demise of the account holder, regardless of how the estate may be affected. <\/p>\n
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