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Are your digital assets in your estate plan?

Much of our life lives online these days.  Email is just the beginning.  Do you have a Facebook account?  What about PayPal?  How about an

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February 12, 2017

Facebook declared people prematurely dead.  Were you one of them?

On Thursday, 11/11, Facebook had a bug.  It was one that managed to modify user profiles and declare those users dead.  Even Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s

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November 13, 2016

6 ways to foil hackers, phishers and pushy marketers

I’ve written a lot in the past about identity theft and the importance of protecting your online accounts.  These six points were contained in an email

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October 9, 2016

Which state is the first to adopt the revised UFADAA?

Oregon became the first state to adopt the revised Uniform fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act when Governor Kate Brown signed it into law on

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April 10, 2016

Yahoo – What happens to a deceased’s online account?

Any free Yahoo account will automatically be cancelled after it has been inactive for 90 days.  Premium services, however, will continue to be charged until

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November 3, 2011

PayPal – How can I cancel a deceased’s online account?

Only the executor of the estate can close a PayPal account that is held in the name of the deceased.  To do so, the executor

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October 9, 2011

Facebook – Do you remain in cyberspace forever?

If a loved one has left his or her login information – user name and password – where you can find it, there’s no problem. All you have to

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September 28, 2011

Google – What happens to your Gmail account when you die?

Google is one of the few ISPs that actually have a published policy on what to do to access a Gmail account when someone dies. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=14300 Whoever

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September 23, 2011

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