Access to Online Accounts: Helping Your Executor and Loved Ones

Make sure your executor or another trusted person can find the passwords and usernames for your digital accounts.

Practical Estate Planning: Organize Your Documents

Help your family -- and make your executor's job easier -- by getting your paperwork in order.

Help Your Executor: Secured Places and Passwords

Does your executor know how to find the things you've hidden?

Prepare for Deployment: Get Organized

Get your legal records, finances, and benefits in ship-out shape.

Disaster-Proofing Your Documents

Prepare now so that if disaster strikes, your most valuable documents will be safe and accessible.

A Plan for Your Digital Legacy

What will happen to your online accounts when you die?

Can I Use an Estate Plan to Minimize the Effect of My Debt on My Beneficiaries?

Your debt may outlive you, but you can take steps to reduce the burden.

Three Important Steps to Take When Your Child Turns 18

Are you ready (legally) for your child to be an adult?

Final Arrangements FAQ

Planning some of the details of your burial or cremation -- and your memorial service -- can be a great relief to your survivors.

Planning Your Funeral or Memorial Service

Written funeral plans will spare your family worry and confusion.

Green Funerals: Protect the Planet and Your Pocketbook

A green burial or cremation is easier on the environment and saves money, too.

The Prepaid Funeral and Its Perils

You should be extremely cautious about funeral prepayment. Here's why.

The Organ Donor: A Guide

Organ, tissue, or body donations must be carried out immediately after death, so if you want to be a donor, you should make arrangements in advance and discuss your plans and wishes with those closest to you. Here is some basic information about organ donation and what you can do to ensure that your wish to be a donor is carried out.

Donate Your Body to Medicine

How do I arrange a full body donation to a medical institution?

How to Get a Death Certificate

Death certificates are required by law for multiple purposes

Get It Together:Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To

Everything you need to bring order to chaos--and make things easier on your family when the time comes.

The Executor's Guide

If you're helping someone get organized and expect to someday serve as executor, here you'll find 10 things that the person you're helping can do now to make your job easier.