A "Will" for your Digital Assets
A new online service, Entrustet, provides a free way to safeguard your digital assets, such as domain names, blogs, twitter accounts, online financial accounts, etc. I have tried it out, and it's very user friendly.
- With a Lawyer Directory on the site, Entrustet makes it easy to find local estate planners who know what to do with digital assets
- Entrustet makes it easy to share your digital assets with your lawyer. In the Account Guardian, there's a place to add your attorney's contact information. In the Account Guardian dashboard, there's an "email" icon at the bottom where you can send a summary of your digital assets directly to your attorney.
In addition to the general public, estate planning lawyers may find it a good value-added service to introduce to clients. Some features that benefit lawyers:
- A listing on the Entrustet directory comes with educational information and support for incorporating digital assets into clients' estate planning documents. There is a digital assets how-to guide and example copies of real life wills with digital assets is included. I understand that an intake sheet that lawyers can add to their existing intake forms to introduce clients to the topic of digital estate planning.
- A listing on the directory comes with a site seal to put on the firm's website to let visitors know that the firm is certified in digital assets.
