Digital assets: Help your heirs from getting lost in the cloud

For many of us, stashing information has moved from old-fashioned filing cabinets, desk drawers, and shoeboxes into the digital "cloud."  Will your heirs be able to find out what you own (and what you owe) if you can't log on and show them?  The answer may be no. A  Retirement Institute study found that 57% of respondents hadn't made provisions to pass their digital financial records on to their heirs, even though more than half of those with digital property believed that it's important to do so.  More

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