Guides
Practical, Australia-specific guides to digital estate planning — passwords, crypto, executors, and everything a will doesn't cover.
Essential guides
The big picture: planning your own digital estate, protecting your passwords, and what an executor needs to know.
The complete guide to digital estate planning in Australia
Start here — what digital estate planning is, why Australia has a real legal gap here, and the nine categories that make up a digital estate.
Digital estate checklist: 9 categories to cover
A practical checklist for organising your online accounts, subscriptions and digital assets, category by category.
What happens to your online accounts when you die?
What actually happens to Facebook, email, banking and streaming accounts after death — and why it depends on what you've documented in advance.
How to find lost or unclaimed superannuation in Australia
Billions of dollars in Australian super sits unclaimed. How to check, and how it ties into your own digital estate.
Executor's first 30 days: a practical checklist
Been named an executor? A practical, non-legal walkthrough of the first month.
Digital estate planning vs a will: what's the difference?
A will and a digital estate inventory do genuinely different jobs. Where the line sits, and why you likely need both.
What happens to cryptocurrency when you die?
Exchange-held vs self-custody crypto, and how to handle a seed phrase safely.
How to organise passwords for digital estate planning
Never write passwords into a shared document — the safer method using a password manager and emergency access.
Which password manager should you use? A comparison for estate planning
Seven password managers compared on whether your executor can get in, plus our recommendation.
How to keep your online accounts safe: a plain-English guide
Seven practical steps to protect your email, banking and myGov from scammers, without locking your family out.
After someone dies: account-by-account guides
Step-by-step Australian guides for executors and families — what to do with each account, the documents you'll need, and the deadlines that catch people out. Each was checked against the provider's or regulator's own pages.
How to access or close a phone after someone dies
Why nobody can unlock a deceased person's phone, what data you can still recover, and how to deal with the telco.
How to access or close someone's email after they die
What Google, Microsoft and other providers will and won't release to families, and how to close an account.
How to memorialise or close a Facebook account after someone dies
Memorialise or remove: who can ask for each, what you'll need, and how a legacy contact helps.
How to recover someone's photos after they die: Google Photos and iCloud
How to get photos back from Google Photos and iCloud, and why it depends on what was set up in advance.
How to access someone's crypto after they die
Exchange-held crypto vs a personal wallet, what exchanges need from the executor, and why seed phrases matter.
How to close a PayPal account after someone dies
What PayPal Australia needs from the executor to close the account and pay out any balance.
How to find and claim someone's super after they die
Why super doesn't follow the will, how death benefits are paid, and how to find every fund.
What happens to myGov, Centrelink and the ATO after someone dies
Who to tell at Centrelink and the ATO, the deadlines that apply, and why you shouldn't log in to their myGov.
How to cancel someone's subscriptions after they die
How to find every recurring charge and cancel it, even after the bank account is frozen.
What happens to frequent flyer points when someone dies
Qantas and Velocity rules for passing on points, and the deadlines for claiming them.
How to transfer someone's domain name after they die
How to transfer a domain name to a new owner before it expires, including .au eligibility rules.
How to close a sole trader's business after they die
Closing the ABN, GST and business accounts, and what to do about customers and records.
How to close or access someone's bank accounts after they die
What happens when a bank is told, the documents executors need, and the Banking Code deadlines.
How to close or transfer utilities after someone dies
Why not to cancel too quickly, how to transfer or close each account, and what insurers need.
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