Estate Planning Should Include Digital Assets
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April 23, 2014
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Posted by
CHWM | - Estate Administration
The legal field is still playing catch up when it comes to laws and regulations governing what happens to online accounts after someone dies, and user-service agreements and privacy laws can make gaining access to these accounts even more difficult. Digital accounts can include website domain names, emails, online bank accounts, documents in cloud storage and social media accounts, and even though these are housed on the Internet, they do have value, sometimes financial and other times sentimental.
