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Digital Estate Planning Guide: Get Your Assets in Order | Digital Distress | Online Accounts | Estate Planning | Estates Gone Wrong 15 Mar
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  • Curated Content, Digital Distress

Digital Estate Planning Guide: Get Your Assets in Order

The Impact of Digital Assets on Estate Planning and Litigation | Digital Distress | What Happens to Your Digital Assets | Estates Gone Wrong 11 Mar
  • by Estates Gone Wrong
  • Curated Content, Digital Distress

The Impact of Digital Assets on Estate Planning and Litigation

Learn the critical reasons why a will alone is insufficient for a comprehensive estate plan, and why incorporating trusts, beneficiary designations and incapacity planning is essential to ensure a seamless and protected transfer of your assets to your loved ones. 11 Mar
  • by Estates Gone Wrong
  • Common Mistakes, Curated Content

Relying Solely on a Will? It Could Be a Costly Mistake!

Given the many considerations that come with passing down or inheriting a collection, it's wise to plan well in advance— particularly for rare or especially valuable assets. 08 Mar
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  • Curated Content, Unique Collectibles

Key Steps & Planning Considerations for Rare Collectibles

Estate Planning: How To Keep Track of Passwords, Access Keys, and PINs 06 Mar
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  • Curated Content, Digital Distress

Estate Planning: How To Keep Track of Passwords, Access Keys, and PINs

These moments spent with a loved one during the last few hours of life are precious and profound and they can change you for the good forever. Say yes and show up to offer comfort... You won’t regret it. 06 Mar
  • by Estates Gone Wrong
  • Curated Content, Related Resources

Comforting a Dying Loved One: What to Say…

When getting started with an inheritance, it’s important to ask the right questions. Encompass Advisors have curated 12 essential questions to ask when expecting a financial windfall. 29 Feb
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  • Curated Content, Frequently Asked Questions

12 Questions to Ask When Receiving an Inheritance

How to Make Sure Your Online Accounts Aren't a Nightmare for Your Family | Digital Distress | Legacy Contacts | Estates Gone Wrong 26 Feb
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  • Curated Content, Digital Distress

Will Your Online Accounts Become a Nightmare for Your Family?

As generative AI brings dead celebrities back to life, we must rethink the rights of the deceased. Changes are due in privacy, consumer protection and property laws, University at Buffalo legal scholar Mark Bartholomew says... 24 Jan
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  • Curated Content, Law Reform

Generative AI: Rethinking the Legal Rights of the Deceased

What Are the Consequences of Not Planning for Long-Term Care? | Curated Content | Elder Care Nightmares | Estates Gone Wrong 22 Jan
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  • Curated Content, Long-Term Care Crisis

The Consequences of Not Planning for Long-Term Care

Estate Planning Lessons from the Complex World of ‘Better Call Saul’ 15 Jan
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  • Common Mistakes, Curated Content

Estate Planning Lessons from the Complex World of ‘Better Call Saul’

Even Canadians who don’t consider themselves snowbirds may own property south of the border or have other U.S. based assets that could impact their planning. 02 Jan
  • by Estates Gone Wrong
  • Curated Content, Property Pitfalls

Snowbirds: Is Your Cross-border Property in Your Estate Plan?

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