Digital Asset Entanglement: Unraveling the Intersection of Estate Laws & Technology
Succession planning. As Sheona McDonald, documentary filmmaker who recently released Dead Man’s Switch: A Crypto Mystery, explains in her introduction to this new volume, “Gone are the days of an elderly relative, friend or spouse passing and leaving you with the challenge of what to do with the silverware and good china. Now, even the simplest of estates can leave one with months or, more likely, years of work to do.” And that’s why the publication of this practical volume couldn’t be more timely.

Sharon Hartung, Captain (Ret’d), PEng, TEP, is the founder of Your Digital Undertaker®, which provides Digital Executor® webinars and consulting for advisors and clients on the tech management aspects of digital assets in estate planning. Sharon is the author of Digital Executor®: Unraveling the New Path for Estate Planning (2021) and Your Digital Undertaker: Exploring Death in the Digital Age in Canada (2019). Sharon is a committee member on the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Digital Assets SIG. Twitter@Undertaker Tech and website: https://yourdigitalundertaker.com

Jennifer L. Zegel, Esquire, LL.M., TEP, is a partner at Kleinbard LLC and the Practice Leader of the firm’s Trusts and Estates Group in Philadelphia. While she maintains a traditional estates and trusts practice, she has also developed a specialized focus on estate and business planning and the estate administration of digital assets – a rapidly growing and increasingly complex area.
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