The drama playing out over the late actor’s assets offers valuable lessons for anyone leaving an estate – large or small – to their loved ones or a favorite charity.
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End-of-life planning today includes making sure your loved ones have access to digital photos, email archives and social media accounts.
Ethical and legal issues around death in the digital age are thorny enough dealing with social media accounts. AI puts the notion of a digital afterlife into overdrive.
Restrictions that seem reasonable during life can backfire after death.
Online tools promise to democratize estate planning and will preparation, but users are responsible for complying with state laws.
Courts have had to consider whether an eggshell, a tractor fender, a petticoat hem, graffiti on a wall, and a poem might be valid wills. They’ve shown surprising flexibility in judgment.
What happens to your Facebook account, your iTunes purchases and your email messages when you die?
Medicaid, a state-federal entitlement program that people associate only with the poor, pays for care for more than six in 10 nursing home residents. That could be you, or someone you love.
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