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Can your next of kin access your digital devices?

Posted on 29th April 2022

The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) is supporting a campaign to give bereaved families access to their loved ones’ digital assets.

Friends and family might not be able to access your digital devices when you die

Have you included your digital assets in your Will?

Posted on 24th November 2021

It’s a new question for our technological age – what happens to your digital assets when you die?

People often underestimate what’s in their estate when they start to think about their Will. It’s easy to forget about things that are stored in the cloud or on a laptop or smartphone, social media accounts, online bank accounts and cryptocurrencies.

Coding for a website is a digital asset that you could include in your Will.

How many of your assets are digital?

Posted on 8th October 2021

Even photo stored on your phone or in the cloud are digital assets

Social media and email accounts, cryptocurrencies, and photographs stored in the cloud are all digital assets.

Although they are an important part of our lives, we probably haven’t given much thought to what will happen to them if we die or are unable to make decisions about them.

Joint research by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and the Microsoft-funded Cloud Legal Project at Queen Mary University of London has looked at the practical issues surrounding digital assets for estate planning.

Posts tagged “Digital assets”

Can your next of kin access your digital devices?

Have you included your digital assets in your Will?

How many of your assets are digital?

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