Digital Assets

Technically speaking, digital assets are any “electronic record” that you own, license, or control.

How to include online accounts and digital files in your estate plan.

You can pass some types of digital assets through your will, but most digital assets transfer in other ways, or not at all.

After you die, the person wrapping up your affairs may need to access your digital assets.

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

Give your loved ones access to your Facebook, Apple, and Google data after your death.

You can use a power of attorney to give a trusted agent authority to manage your digital assets. And if you have serious or specific concerns about what will happen to your digital assets if you become incapacitated, you might also give your agent login information and instructions about what do with your accounts.

RUFADAA helps fiduciaries and tech companies figure out who should have access to a person's digital assets after death.

You can decide, if you make a plan.

Yahoo will delete your account after you die if there's been 12 months of inactivity. But there are ways to plan for managing your account after death.

What happens to your LinkedIn account when you die depends on a few things...

Snapchat is not forthcoming about what happens to the accounts of deceased users.