Golden drafting bill to help executors access emails of deceased
A person who has died left behind a will designating a relative as the executor of his estate. But the deceased also did his banking and paid his bills online and never gave anyone his passwords. As a result, the executor of the will has no access to the business emails of the deceased and cannot fully perform his or her duties in the disposition of the will.
State Sen. Marty Golden said with more and more people conducting all of their business affairs online, the situation described above is becoming increasingly common.
Golden, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Science, Technology, Incubation and Entrepreneurship, said he is in the process of crafting legislation that would allow the email of a person who has died to be accessed by the executor of their estate.