Probate – What happens to your Microsoft account when you die? Dealing with our ‘digital estate’ is something relatively new to the probate process.  Our ‘digital footprint’ is now likely to be wide and varied.  And like so many other online accounts and profiles, someone who passes away is very likely [...]

Probate – What happens to your Apple account when you die? Apple offers a number of ways to deal with your account on death.  Apple is now one of many accounts/profiles that our executors need to deal with on our death, in addition to the traditional process of ‘probate’. This collection [...]

Probate – What to do with your Snapchat when you die? Dealing with social media accounts is something increasingly important for executors.  An easy way to deal with a Snapchat profile of a deceased person is (like with any social media) to have their login credentials.  There is then no need [...]

Probate – What to do with a LinkedIn profile after death LinkedIn is another part of our digital footprint that executors will likely want to deal with after death.  LinkedIn is popular worldwide as an online business networking platform.  Though not something of financial value in the context of ‘probate’, it [...]

Probate – What is a Digital Will? A digital will is a relatively new concept to describe how we might deal with our online footprint.  A digital will is a cross between a ‘letter of wishes’, and an inventory to help our loved ones/personal representatives deal with our online footprint in [...]

Probate – What is our Digital Estate? Our ever-increasing reliance on the internet has created a whole new element to ‘probate’.  Our digital estate is the ‘online footprint’ that we leave when we die.  It is those accounts, profiles, and platforms where we viewed, held and gathered information, and where we [...]

Probate – What happens to your YouTube account when you die? Our ever growing digital footprint (inc YouTube) is a new aspect to be deal with alongside traditional ‘probate’.  Unlike some social media platforms, YouTube is one in which many content creators will have ‘monetized’ profiles.  Dealing with their account after [...]

Probate – What happens to your Pinterest profile when you die? Pinterest profiles/accounts are one of many online platforms to be dealt with alongside probate.  Pinterest is one of many platforms now often referred to as our 'digital estate'. Do you have to register a death with Pinterest? No.  As with [...]

Probate – What happens to social media when you die? Our every growing online footprint is something ‘new’ for our personal representatives to deal with.  The simple answer is that our social media presence will stay in situ unless our personal representatives take action.  And, subject to the policies of the [...]

What happens to your Facebook account when you die? Facebook has provision to 'memorialise' the profile of a loved one that has passed.  A relatively new aspect to probate for executors to deal with is what to do with social media accounts/profiles (often referred to as our 'digital estate').  Here we [...]