
Keeping Foreign Assets Out of Probate
Owning property or investments in more than one country can strengthen your financial legacy. However, it may also create complex legal challenges during probate.

Owning property or investments in more than one country can strengthen your financial legacy. However, it may also create complex legal challenges during probate.

Assets, heirs and homes in multiple countries require a plan that respects more than one legal system.

Without a clear plan, your cryptocurrency wallet and assets could become permanently inaccessible after your death.

Without a solid plan, your digital wealth could vanish, leaving your loved ones with nothing.

Your digital life includes dozens of usernames and passwords. Providing a digital estate plan can help your family deal with your accounts with minimal fuss.

There are certain provisions that people often forget to put in a will or estate plan that can have a big impact on a family.

Cryptocurrency has become a new wrinkle in the development of an estate plan.

For most people, pretty much everything they owned could be held, sorted and doled out by their estate lawyer. Today, that’s far less true.

At any given time, the average American maintains between 30 and 50 online accounts. These may be with banks, financial institutions, utility companies, email providers, social media outlets, commercial shopping or travel sites and accounts unique to technology, such as an account to purchase apps for a smartphone.

In today’s digital era, the departed will be survived by their electronic footprints, such as iPhone photo albums, Spotify playlists—and cryptocurrency wallets.