Don’t forget to make your passwords part of your digital estate plan
All the preparation in the world will be of little help if you don’t include your username, password, or PIN in your estate plan, and make sure that they are updated as necessary. If you are comfortable doing so, make a list of all your password-protected online emails, accounts, and social media so your loved ones can access your digital assets upon death. Make sure you include instructions for two-factor authentications that might be required. Under the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA), Kansas law gives you the option to appoint a digital assets fiduciary in your will. Whether that fiduciary is a person granted power of attorney, is a personal representative, a trustee, or acting as a guardian or conservator, he or she is charged with “managing tangible property apply to the management of digital assets, including the duties of care, loyalty, and confidentiality, and describes the scope of a fiduciary or designated recipient’s authority over a user’s digital assets.”