Digital Will Becoming a Popular Idea

While this concept is still at its infancy, many countries are starting to implement this idea.

Law firms in Britain are starting to advise their clients to leave their logins and passwords in their wills to allow their executors to have access to e-affairs such as e-mails, e-contacts, and e-banking after their death.

In the US, Legacy Locker provides services in which posthumous emails are sent to designated friends and family upon a user’s death and such services are activated if a user fails to reply to regular e-mails. There are also other facilities available where for a monthly or lifetime fee, a person can store passwords and documents which are then mailed to pre-chosen contacts after the person’s death.

Create your Digital Will Today!

The truth is, online assets of the people of today will be of interest to the genealogists of tomorrow. It may be wise to start thinking about leaving your online wishes known. While hacking into someone’s accounts is illegal, there is no bar in passing personal information to someone by way of a Will.

While passwords should be changed on a regular basis, the answers to security questions for resetting your password would not.  Accordingly, you should consider writing down the answer to those security questions, and place it next to your will so that your family can assume control of your digital wealth as well as your physical one.