{"title":"When two worlds collide: digital assets and your estate plan","authors":"Christo Meyer","doi":"10.1093/tandt/ttad105","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n With the digital world being forced to interact with the physical world when it comes to death and the transfer/succession of asset ownership, we currently have two very different worlds colliding. Even in our technology-focused world, people’s estate plans still only account for “traditional” assets, like a car, bank account, house, etc., whereas more and more individuals own digital assets. Planning for digital assets is much more involved than one may think; different laws and classifications of digital assets make planning for these types of assets very specialized, as you are working with a real risk that a digital asset may be lost forever.","PeriodicalId":171463,"journal":{"name":"Trusts & Trustees","volume":"40 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Trusts & Trustees","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/tandt/ttad105","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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With the digital world being forced to interact with the physical world when it comes to death and the transfer/succession of asset ownership, we currently have two very different worlds colliding. Even in our technology-focused world, people’s estate plans still only account for “traditional” assets, like a car, bank account, house, etc., whereas more and more individuals own digital assets. Planning for digital assets is much more involved than one may think; different laws and classifications of digital assets make planning for these types of assets very specialized, as you are working with a real risk that a digital asset may be lost forever.