A more secure way to handle the ability of your Attorney-in-Fact, Trustee or Personal Representative to access your passwords and online accounts would be to include a clause in your Power of Attorney, Trust and/or Will. Typically, this clause says something to the effect of "allowing him/her/they to access, handle, distribute and dispose of digital assets including (list here) on my digital devices, including mobile phones, computers, tablets, storage devices, etc. "
Language should be included to indicate that since technology is always changing, this would apply to other items which may exist as technology develops in the future.
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