A significant part of estate planning in the 21st Century is managing digital information. In the old days, estate planners could go through the paperwork on somebody\u2019s desk upon their death or simply wait for the mail to bring all of the final statements.<\/p>\n
Those days have passed. Many people planning their estates today keep track of more accounts digitally than they do with paper. This means people planning their estates must provide passwords and a thorough list of all digital assets.<\/p>\n
Passwords can be tricky. Most professional estate planners do not want to be responsible for the passwords of the living. If someone hacked into a client\u2019s account, there would be no way to prove where the hacker got the information. Some estate planning attorneys suggest keeping a list of digital accounts and the passwords to those accounts in a home safe or a safe deposit box. If the passwords change, then (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A significant part of estate planning in the 21st Century is managing digital information. In the old days, estate planners could go through the paperwork on somebody\u2019s desk upon their death or simply wait for the mail to bring all…<\/span><\/p>\n