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Estate planning for your digital assets

  • Written by Natalie Banta, Associate Professor of Law, Drake University
Digital documents are not nearly as easy to retrieve.Africa Studio/Shutterstock.com

What will happen to your Facebook account when you die? What about all your photos shared on social media, your texts with loved ones, or documents on cloud-storage systems? In just the two-year period from 2012 to 2014, humans produced more data than in all of...

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