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=== Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act ===
As a response to the lack of both federal and state laws concerning digital inheritance, in 2015 the [[Uniform Law Commission]] released the ''Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act'' (RUFADAA).<ref>Sy, E. (2016). The Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act: Has the law caught up with technology? ''Touro Law Review, 32''(3), 647-678. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/touro32&i=665</ref> This piece of legislation seeks to balance the interests of digital estate administrators and the privacy concerns of internet account users and service providers. The RUFADAA stipulates that a personal representative (estate administrator, [[fiduciary]], or [[Conservatorship|conservator]]) of an online account user has the right to access the user's electronic communications if the user had consented to this disclosure either via an online tool (such as Facebook's Legacy Contact feature or Google's Inactive Account Manager) or in a will. If neither of these forms of user consent are on file, an online service provider's terms of service agreement remains in effect and the provider has the right to deny a fiduciary access to electronic communications.<ref>Ronderos, J. (2017). Is access enough: Addressing inheritability of digital assets using the three-tier system under the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. ''Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law, 18''(3), 1031-1066. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/transac18&i=1058</ref> As of 2021, 47 states have enacted the RUFADAA.<ref>
== Benefits of digital inheritance ==
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