Episode 69 - Estate Planning for Your Digital Life and Crypto Wealth with Demetre Vasilounis
In this episode of Your Estate Matters, host Nicole Garton speaks with Dmitri Vasilounis, a lawyer and trust and estate practitioner at RBC Wealth Management, about the growing importance of digital assets in estate planning. Together, they explore what happens to email accounts, social media profiles, cryptocurrency, and other digital holdings after death or incapacity. Dmitri explains key concepts such as custodial versus non-custodial assets and cryptocurrency storage types, while offering practical advice, including creating a digital asset inventory and using platform tools like Apple's Legacy Contact and Google's Inactive Account Manager to help executors access accounts smoothly.
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