Digital Assets
Protect Your Digital Legacy
In today’s digital world, your estate plan isn’t complete without addressing data privacy and your digital legacy. From online banking and social media accounts to cloud storage and cryptocurrencies, your digital assets need protection just like your physical ones. Key Steps for Digital Estate Planning: ✅ Make a List – Document your online accounts, passwords,…
READ MORE →10 Non-Finanical Estate Planning Issues to Consider
10 Important Conversations to Have When Estate Planning Estate planning is about more than just dividing assets—it’s about ensuring your loved ones are cared for, your values are honored, and your wishes are carried out. Whether you’re planning with your spouse or on your own, these 10 topics are crucial to consider. Having these conversations…
READ MORE →Using Google’s Inactive Accounts Manager for Digital Estate Planning
As our digital footprint expands, the importance of managing what happens to our online presence after we pass away becomes more significant. From social media accounts to cloud storage and email, our digital lives leave behind a trail of information that often needs to be handled by loved ones or an executor. Thankfully, Google now…
READ MORE →Online Wills in AZ: More Trouble than it’s Worth?
In 2019, Arizona’s Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law House Bill 2656, which gives us here in Arizona the ability to create online wills. On the one hand, it was theoretically perfect timing for the COVID crisis, but on the other, the demands of the law seem to make electronic wills more complicated than regular…
READ MORE →10 Non-Financial Estate Planning Issues to Consider
Here are 10 important topics to consider when estate planning — good conversations to have with your spouse (if you have one). I am happy to help you navigate these choices — call for more information.
READ MORE →Why Sharing Your Digital Passwords is Critical
As more and more of our lives move online, it is becoming critical to document information about accessing your online accounts and assets (bank accounts, brokerage accounts, photos, videos, etc.). Making sure you leave account information and digital passwords is critical. Why?
READ MORE →Facebook Uses AI to Determine User Death
Facebook plans to use artificial intelligence to help it be more sensitive of its members’ feelings when it comes to death of a friend or family member. In the past, Facebook might have allowed Memories to popup, send Birthday reminders and more. The results were not always positive for some folks. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg…
READ MORE →Estate Documents in the Cloud
So, if you visited me and created one or more of the following documents, I have some good news. The state of Arizona helps you store these documents safely and at no charge. Save These Arizona Advance Directives Online AND for Free: Medical/Health Care Power of Attorney Mental Health Care Power of Attorney Living Will…
READ MORE →Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies & Estate Planning
You have probably heard of (or even invested in) cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum. For those that aren’t sure what I’m talking about, cryptocurrencies are a new kind of money that only exist digitally. While you can’t hold such currency at your local bank or buy gas or groceries with them (yet), these digital…
READ MORE →Guest Post: 9 Helpful Apps for Long-Distance Caregivers
By Marie Villeza, elderimpact.org Along with the aging Baby Boomer population has come a rise in high-tech solutions for managing life in old age. Gone are the days of hiring a home caregiver and hoping for the best; today, children can keep tabs on their parents’ well-being from afar with the help of apps and services…
READ MORE →Managing Your Social Media After Death: Twitter, Google & Instagram
Not many of us like thinking about death — especially our own. But making plans for what happens after you’re gone is really important for the people you leave behind. We recently wrote about new features that Facebook instituted to help you manage your account after your death. With every day, every year that passes,…
READ MORE →What Happens to Your Digital Footprint When You’re Gone?
Have you ever worried about what would happen to your digital footprint if you were to pass away? Who would manage your email, social media posts, blogs, domains, affiliate sales accounts, music, photographs, games, websites, banking, investments, or even operational online businesses?
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