Digital and Intellectual Property Estate Planning

Special Needs Trust
Does your estate plan address your digital assets? When you pass away, will family members have access to important passwords? Do you have any patents, copyrights, or other rights to intellectual property? As our world becomes more and more digital, traditional estate planning is insufficient to meet today’s needs. Here are some aspects of estate planning you may not have considered:
  • What will happen to your social media accounts, e-mail accounts, blogs, etc. when you pass away?
  • Do you own any bitcoin?
  • Have your photos, family movies, and other important documents been digitized? If so, will family members have access to them when you pass away?
  • How will you divide up movie collections, books, music, and other digital assets?
  • Have you written down important passwords to give family members access to your computer or other devices, internet, cloud storage, etc.? If so, do your family members know where to find those passwords?
So much of our assets and information depend on technology. If your estate plan does not address digital assets, it may create additional stress for your surviving family members at a time when they are already grieving. To find out how Inter Vivos can integrate digital planning into your overall plan, give us a call.

E-book: "Estate Planning For The Zombie Apocalypse"

E-book for Special Needs Trust
Whether you believe the Zombie Apocalypse is coming or not, you still have assets and property to protect, some of which you may not even realize you have. Our upcoming E-Book, "Estate Planning for the Zombie Apocalypse" focuses on planning to protect your stuff in the case of emergencies, to make sure it gets to who it needs to get to with the least amount of problems possible. From guns to digital access for movies social media, and more, proper planning can protect your stuff from horror stories.

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