Practical guides on digital estate planning, life story preservation, and helping the people you love when the time comes.
Your retirement accounts do not follow your will. They follow a form most people filled out years ago and forgot. Here is how the money actually moves, what the plan administrator will ask for, and the ten-minute check that protects your family.
8 min readMost parents want to write a letter their children will open one day. Most never do. Here is how to actually sit down and write the thing, what to include, and what to leave out.
8 min readA locked iPhone is one of the most common quiet problems families face after a death. Here is what Apple actually allows, the step almost everyone skips, and the five minutes that can save your family months.
7 min readBeing named executor is a job most people learn while grieving. A plain-English checklist for the first month: who to call, what to file with the probate court, and where the common traps are.
9 min readMost estates are not a filing cabinet. They are a locked phone, an unreachable email, and subscriptions still billing every month. Here is what actually happens, and what you can do now.
7 min readMost of what we know about our grandparents is a photograph and a sentence. Most of what they knew about themselves is gone. It does not have to go that way.
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