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[patrickmarshall]

An article will be running Sunday in the newspaper about how important it is to consider digital accounts and assets in planning your estate...and how few do so. The experts have the following recommendations:

Steps to take

1. Do a complete inventory of all digital accounts and assets.
2. Assemble a list of all passwords.
3. Select a fiduciary and give them the proper power of attorney.


Digital assets checklist

1. Home security systems.
2. Smartphones.
3. Computers.
4. Voicemail.
5. E-mail accounts.
6. Financial accounts (banks, stock trading, tax, etc.).
7. Online sales and purchasing accounts.
8. Web pages and blogs
9. Social network accounts
10. Domain names
11. Intellectual property rights (manuscripts, music, photographs, etc.)
12. Video games and virtual worlds
13. Cloud storage

This list was assembled from materials provided by James D. Lamm, an estate planning attorney.