What happens to a digital asset portfolio if the designated fiduciary is locked out of hardware-based cold storage devices after death?
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What happens to a digital asset portfolio if the designated fiduciary is locked out of hardware-based cold storage devices after death?
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- Digital Assets and Estate Planning: Preventing and Resolving Trust and Probate Challenges · americanbar.org
- Fitting cryptocurrency into an investor's estate plans · institutional.fidelity.com
- Estate Planning and Digital Assets · ohiobar.org
- Estate Planning for Digital Assets: Understanding the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act and Its Implications for Planners and Clients · financialplanningassociation.org
- How to Protect Digital Assets in an Estate Plan · americanbar.org
- BRAVER OUR BRAVE NEW WORLD: CRYPTO ASSETS – REGULA · midatlanticfellowsinstitute.org
- Unfortunately, there is no simple answer to the question of how to locate virtual currency, NFTs or crypto assets after the owner’s death. Because there is no central repository and no help desk or other centralized authority, a fiduciary may only know about blockchain assets if the decedent has taken steps to ensure that the assets are discoverable. This issue highlights the need for planning in advance, as well as the need for all advisors to ask about blockchain assets when they begin working · kirkland.com
- Digital Assets and Online Legacy: An Essential Planning Conversation · heart.org