Business is going digital and digitisation has spread throughout all areas of private law, including inheritance law. “Digital inheritance” is a term in law, and refers to the transfer of rights to digital assets.
A Digital asset can be defined as a personal property owned by an individual which is stored in a digital form, therefore any digital data that a person leaves, after his death, stored on diverse types of digital devices and in the cloud. This includes a multitude of digital formats and their respective metadata: from your online accounts, including banking information, to social media passwords.
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