Leaving directives about personal email addresses upon your death is part of estate planning in the digital age. Here are some steps to consider before you leave directives about your personal email account. Sometimes, a little clean-up on the front end can help you decide whether or not to even include your personal email account as part of your will or trust.
If you don’t delete your personal email accounts before you die or have someone conduct that task for you, then email service providers will, eventually, take matters into their own hands. Most popular email providers delete inactive accounts after a certain amount of time. Not all providers work the same or have the same threshold. If no one can gain access to your email account after you die, it will simply continue to exist in the cloud until the provider eventually deletes it.
Take a look at these seven points to consider about your email accounts in this article at Hyperdivergent.
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