Why cyberspace should affect your estate planning

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Julie Man discusses why clients need to take the internet into account when making a will

Today the internet plays a bigger role in everyone's lives from social media, banking, buying, emails, social networking sites, the list goes on. People can access the internet freely through computers, laptops and mobile phones. Seeing someone working on a laptop, surfing the net on their mobile is the norm. Does this have a bearing on Wills? Yes! Research estimates that the value of possessions held by Britons in the so called technological 'cloud' is more than £2 billion. A study for cloud computing and hosting firm Rackspace, found that more than a quarter of people in the U...

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