Hmm, we rarely think about this when setting up our estate. What to do with our digital assets?

Think about your daily activities and how many of them involve the internet. Whether you conduct your banking and bill paying online, post or browse social media, send and receive emails, upload photos or view medical records, a good part of your day may be spent online. But with the amount of information out there, what happens to those assets, known as your digital legacy, after you die? Your emails, documents, downloads, posts are an ‘incredible legacy of content.’ That’s why creating a digital estate plan is becoming increasingly important. Whether you specify it in your will or through your estate’s lawyers, assign digital beneficiaries through a service or compile a list of accounts and passwords to give to a trusted family member or friend, you don’t want to leave your loved ones scrambling. [More] The post Hmm, we rarely think about this when setting up our estate. What to do with our digital assets? appeared first on Senior News Daily.

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