Getting Your Affairs in Order
If someone had to make sense of your financial matters without your help, would they know what you owned, where you kept your will and insurance policies, or even who you wanted to take care of your pet? Do yourself -- and your family -- a big favor and get organized now.
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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.
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Practical Estate Planning: Organize Your Documents
Help your family -- and make your executor's job easier -- by getting your paperwork in order.
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Help Your Executor: Secured Places and Passwords
Does your executor know how to find the things you've hidden?
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Prepare for Deployment: Get Finances and Legal Documents Together
Get your legal records, finances, and benefits in ship-out shape.
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Disaster-Proofing Your Documents
Prepare now so that if disaster strikes, your most valuable documents will be safe and accessible.
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A Plan for Your Digital Legacy
What will happen to your online accounts when you die?
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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.
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Three Important Steps to Take When Your Child Turns 18
Are you ready (legally) for your child to be an adult?
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How to Get a Death Certificate
Death certificates are required by law for multiple purposes
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Planning some of the details of your burial or cremation -- and your memorial service -- can be a great relief to your survivors.
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Alkaline Hydrolysis Laws in Your State
Alkaline hydrolysis is a chemical process that reduces a body to components of liquid and bone. It is a green alternative to traditional cremation and burial.
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Planning Your Funeral or Memorial Service
Written funeral plans will spare your family worry and confusion.
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Green Funerals: Protect the Planet and Your Pocketbook
A green burial or cremation is easier on the environment and saves money, too.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Technically speaking, digital assets are any “electronic record” that you own, license, or control.
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The Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA)
RUFADAA helps fiduciaries and tech companies figure out who should have access to a person's digital assets after death.
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What Will Happen to My Email Account After I Die?
You can decide, if you make a plan.
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Why Your Executor Needs Access to Digital Assets
After you die, the person wrapping up your affairs may need to access your digital assets.
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Burial and Cremation Laws in California
Everything you need to know about burial and cremation in California.
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Burial and Cremation Laws in Texas
Here are some answers to common questions about post-death matters in Texas.
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Burial and Cremation Laws in New York
Everything you need to know about burial and cremation in New York.
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Burial & Cremation Laws in Illinois
Everything you need to know about burial and cremation in Illinois.
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Burial and Cremation Laws in Pennsylvania
Here are some answers to common questions about post-death matters in Pennsylvania.
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- Avoiding Family Disputes
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- Cryptocurrency and Estate Planning
- DIY Estate Planning
- Estate Planning: An Overview
- Estates, Executors & Probate Court
- Estate Tax
- Financial Powers of Attorney
- Intestate Succession
- Living Trusts
- Living Wills & Medical Powers of Attorney
- Pets and Estate Planning
- Ways to Avoid Probate
- Wills
- Avoiding Family Disputes
- Charitable Gifts and Trusts
- Cryptocurrency and Estate Planning
- DIY Estate Planning
- Estate Planning: An Overview
- Estates, Executors & Probate Court
- Estate Tax
- Financial Powers of Attorney
- Intestate Succession
- Living Trusts
- Living Wills & Medical Powers of Attorney
- Pets and Estate Planning
- Ways to Avoid Probate
- Wills
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