Your Digital Legacy

Ever wonder what will happen to your digital life after you're gone?  Your email, your Facebook, your Apple watch, your iCloud photos — all of these accounts play a central part of our everyday lives. But, what happens when we are no longer here to manage them? And, an even more important question to consider:

How do these accounts affect the ones you leave behind?

In a world where our online presence is becoming as significant as our physical belongings, understanding how our digital life affects our loved ones after we are gone is a relatively new concept to grasp.

This article from The Atlantic talks about how our digital footprints are becoming an integral part of our legacies. 

“Lingering in someone’s posthumous digital presence can be as painful as it is comforting, and comes with unexpected revelations.”

— Kate Lindsay, The Atlantic

Read in The Atlantic: My Mom Will Email Me After She Dies

We encourage you to take a moment to read this thought-provoking piece that examines the profound emotional and legal considerations surrounding our digital assets after we're gone. 

If you have had experience with this, we would love to hear your story. Send us an email and let us know how this has affected you <3

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Cherish Legal is an estate planning law firm based out of Rockford, Illinois. We are licensed to practice estate planning in Wisconsin and Illinois. We provide virtual estate planning services to families and legal counsel to small businesses located. Our services include: wills, trusts, power of attorney, estate plans, guardianship, trust administration, probate, and asset protection.