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 Organized
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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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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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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The Prepaid Funeral and Its Perils
You should be extremely cautious about funeral prepayment. Here's why.
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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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How do I arrange a full body donation to a medical institution?
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How to Get a Death Certificate
Death certificates are required by law for multiple purposes
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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
Each state has laws affecting what happens to a body after death.
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Burial & Cremation Laws in Texas
Here are some answers to common questions about post-death matters in Texas.
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Burial & Cremation Laws in New York
Each state has laws affecting what happens to a body after death.
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Burial & Cremation Laws in Illinois
Each state has laws affecting what happens to a body after death.
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Burial & Cremation Laws in Pennsylvania
Here are some answers to common questions about post-death matters in Pennsylvania.
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Alkaline Hydrolysis in Maryland
Alkaline hydrolysis has been legal in Maryland since October 2010, but the procedure is not yet available for human remains within the state.
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Alkaline Hydrolysis in Illinois
Illinois was one of the first states to legalize alkaline hydrolysis (AH), and it’s one of just a few states where AH facilities are available to the public.
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Alkaline Hydrolysis in Florida
Florida was one of the first states to legalize alkaline hydrolysis (AH), and it’s one of just a few states where AH facilities are available for human remains.
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