Online Accounts: Don’t Leave Your Family in the Dark

An increasingly important aspect of a person’s financial life is that many people now receive and pay bills through online accounts and/or through email.  Similarly, bank, brokerage and retirement accounts may also be maintained and accesses electronically.  A bill may come via email and if an executor or attorney-in-fact does not know the person’s password access may be difficult if not impossible to gain.  Even worse if you cannot check a person’s email, you may never know an account exists.  It is now increasingly important for people to maintain a list in of online business activities and the passwords that correspond with those activities.  Such a list will go a long way toward helping your family administer your affairs if you are unable, or after you pass on.

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