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When your client dies, who gets their airline miles?

Now that a new law provides executors with access to digital assets, estate planning needs to include such assets

When your client dies, who owns the pictures on their Facebook page? Who has control of their electronic bill-payment sites or bitcoin account? Who is responsible for shutting down or memorializing social media sites?

Digital rights ownership is an increasingly complex issue as our online lives con

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When your client dies, who gets their airline miles?

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