The Digital Estate

Your family may have the will. They may have the attorney. They may know where the deed is and where the insurance papers are filed. But when the phone locks and no one knows the passcode — when the cloud photos are behind a forgotten account and the bank portal is sending password resets to an email no one can access — the plan has a gap.

The Digital Estate is a plain-spoken, practical guide to closing that gap before your family faces it. With 28 chapters and 7 appendices, it walks through every category of digital life that families need to plan for: devices and passwords, email and recovery systems, banking and insurance portals, subscriptions, photos and memories, social media, domain names and online businesses, creative assets, crypto and high-risk holdings, and the tools that hold it all together.

It addresses the planning needs of homeowners and small business owners, authors and musicians, elderly parents and their adult children, blended families, employees with employer data, and ministry leaders with organizational accounts. It covers what not to put in a will, how to use a password manager correctly, two-factor authentication and recovery codes, how to choose a digital helper, and what faithful annual review looks like.

Rooted in the principle that order is love made practical, this book gives every family the map they need before the hard week arrives.

“Let all things be done decently and in order.” — 1 Corinthians 14:40 (KJV)