Write a Digital Asset Plan
Many things you use are intangible, like digital music and photos, streaming music and TV, social media websites, email accounts, and reward points. A digital asset plan explains how you would like these assets and online accounts to be handled after your death.
Appoint someone you trust as a digital asset executor. This person will close accounts and social media profiles, and handle all of your digital assets. When writing a digital asset plan, take these steps:
- Review the terms and conditions of each company where you have digital assets and profiles to know their policies when a customer dies. Find out if any companies will allow you assign access to someone else.
- State if you would like your social medial profiles to be closed or keep them open for friends and family.
- Provide a list of the companies where you have digital accounts, the screen lock for your cell phone, user names, and passwords with your will
- Include the credit card or bank account numbers that are used to pay for fee-based service so that the executor can stop the charges.
- Stipulate in your will that the executor of your digital asset plan should have a copy of your death certificate. He or she may need this in order to take any actions on your behalf.
U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). (2017, April). Wills and funerals. In Consumer action handbook (pp. 51). Retrieved April 12, 2019, from https://www.usa.gov