At Surprenant & Beneski, P.C., where we serve clients throughout Southeastern Massachusetts, our estate planning attorneys are well aware of the importance of protecting not only your digital legacy but also your privacy and financial security. Contact us today to learn more about this important aspect of estate planning and other ways...
Digital Estate Planning Checklist for Massachusetts Residents
In today's digital age, estate planning has expanded beyond physical assets to include a wide range of digital properties. At Surprenant & Beneski, P.C., we advise our clients throughout Southeastern Massachusetts to make sure to include digital assets in their estate plans because the worth of cyberspace entities can now be...
Managing a Decedent’s Digital Legacy: How to Handle Digital Assets
Managing digital assets has emerged as a critical part of estate planning. At Surprenant & Beneski, our estate planning attorneys have many years of experience managing and preserving digital assets for clients throughout Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod & the Islands. Contact us now to discuss how we can help manage...
AARP Article: Prepare a Digital Estate Plan for Future Caregivers
How to provide the information they’ll need to manage your online data
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by Amanda Singleton, AARP
My mother kept a little black book. Not the fun kind filled with suitors’ phone numbers; rather, a binder that contained her accounts, passwords and ongoing bills. When an out-of-the-blue...
USA Today Article: Don’t leave grieving relatives searching for your passwords
Here's how to organize your digital life before you die
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There was a time when you didn’t worry much about your email account, or the website you bought years ago, or your usernames and passwords for various financial and other accounts.
But now you do....
Do You Own Digital Assets? Here’s How to Protect Them with an Estate Plan
Many estate planners have a plan for who will receive their house, family heirlooms, and monetary assets, but many don't consider what will happen to their digital assets. In our tech-savvy society, assets can be as valuable and lucrative as traditional assets, such as homes and property.
Digital...
To die well, we must talk about death before the end of life
An electronic patients chart is shown on the wall to a hospital room at the newly constructed Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center hospital in San Diego, California April 17, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake - RC1740CA8030
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Don’t Forget Digital Assets, when Estate Planning
You can direct what happens to those digital assets, even if it means destroying them.
Almost everyone has digital assets in today’s world and it is important to protect access to them in your estate...
Legal Battles Continue over Singer’s Estate
Instagram messages create challenges for French court.
French entertainer Johnny Hallyday, who died in 2017, left behind testaments and Instagram messages causing some major court issues, according to The New York Times in “French Rock Star’s Instagram Defeats His Widow in...
Second-Marriage Couples Face Estate Planning Challenges
In today’s world it is not at all unusually to have a blended family.
Blended families often face special challenges when it comes to estate planning. Those issues are best approached openly, according to JD Supra in “Seven Estate Planning Considerations...