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iCloud Terms of Service and Digital Assets: What You Need To Know
Most of us now rely on cloud storage services like iCloud to store and share everything, from photos to videos and even sensitive files like contracts and financial documents. But do you know what happens to these digital assets when you, the owner, are gone?
All You Need to Know About Home Title Theft and Arizona’s New Title Alert Law
The digital age is all about convenience and accessible information. But with these benefits also come more opportunities that allow people to steal information for fraudulent purposes.
Why Your Digital Assets Deserve a Place in Your Estate Plan
In today's digital age, our online presence and digital assets have become as integral as physical property. Yet, they are often overlooked in traditional estate planning.
AI Estate Planning: Can ChatGPT Write a Will?
Whether we like it or not, artificial intelligence (AI) has now become an integral part of our lives. From our internet search results to the music suggestions on our playlists to the ads in our social media feed, AI is working hard behind the scenes.
Digital Asset Planning 101: What Are Digital Assets?
With the majority of our lives increasingly spent online, it becomes essential not to overlook your digital assets when preparing your estate plan. In my almost two decades as an estate planning attorney, I have experienced first-hand the importance of accounting for your digital assets before you die.
Digital Estate Planning: You Need a Digital Asset Trust
As technology advances, more and more of our lives are being digitized. From our online banking and social media accounts to our family photos and videos, many of our most important assets are now stored in the digital realm.
Dana and Associates is now Rilus Law!
Dana and Associates is now Rilus Law! Well, technically we are still Dana and Associates, LLC. However, we will now be going by our new name: Rilus Law.
Where is the Safest Place to Keep Your Will?
The tough job of creating your Will is over, but now you want to know: where is the safest place to keep your Will? While you may have heard a few different recommendations, from having an attorney store it or taking it to the county clerk, your choice should be mindfully thought out.
How to Organize Important Papers
As an attorney that practices in estate planning and probate, this is a topic that I discuss frequently. I help people when they are planning for their estate as well as the children who are administering their parents’ estate and trying to locate the important papers that contain the information they need.
Coronavirus and Virtual Estate Planning
Whether the coronavirus pandemic has you worried about your future or spending your downtime being productive, it has certainly inspired widespread changes including highlighting the need for estate planning. People are thinking about what would happen to them, loved ones, pets, and their assets if they ended up in the hospital or passed away suddenly.
Estate Planning in the Digital Age
If you have an estate plan, it has all of your physical assets covered. But, do you have a plan for your non-physical assets that are stored electronically?
How to Properly Share Financial Information with Your Successor Trustee
When I first started working in this industry over 17 years ago as a law clerk, I quickly became aware of a problem that many people encounter after the loss of a loved one. How does a successor trustee determine what assets are owned by the deceased?
Estate Planning in a Paperless World
Technology has changed the world so much in my lifetime. Before the digital age, I would get my bank statements by mail, now I get them in my email or log in online to check balances.
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