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The person named in your will cannot log into Gmail by showing a death certificate. Here is why the court job and the login job are different, and how to name both without creating a fight.

A setting inside Apple or Google can outrank your will. Here's the actual hierarchy, the Keychain hole, and how to make the settings and the documents say the same names.

Estate plans decay from the day you make them. Here's a catalog of what silently breaks, plus a quarterly and annual maintenance schedule to keep yours alive.

A death binder is one place for the documents, passwords, and wishes your family needs if you die or are incapacitated. Paper binders get lost, go stale, and cannot deliver themselves. Digitize the binder, keep it current, and attach it to a deadman switch so delivery happens when check-ins stop. Start free at kinswitch.app/register.

A walk through the exact email your people receive when your switch fires, the subject line, your letter, their documents, and how to preview it yourself today.

An "If I'm Gone" journal is one sealed place that answers what your family needs on the worst day: who to call, where the will and insurance are, legal and medical wishes, funeral preferences, who depends on you, and what you want them to know. In KinSwitch you can build it as a notebook, attach the real documents, and put it on a deadman switch (or share it now) so it arrives when it is needed.

If you've ever designed a distributed system, you already know how to do digital estate planning. The vocabulary is the same, single point of failure, failover, RTO, audit log, and the question is the same: what happens to a critical node when it goes down? You just haven't applied the framework to yourself yet.

Your code outlives you. Your accounts don't. Your npm packages keep being downloaded a million times a week with nobody at the wheel. A look at what actually happens to a developer's open source footprint after death, and why the bus factor of half the internet is one.

Your Bitcoin has an inheritance problem. Your NFTs, DeFi positions, and Web3 identities have a worse one. Here's what actually lives on-chain, what dies with the wallet, and how to build an inheritance plan that works for all of it.

Your divorce decree updates the big stuff. But hundreds of digital accounts still list your ex as beneficiary, trusted contact, or admin. Here's what to change, in what order, and how to make sure nothing gets missed.