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When you specify who your executor is, you also provide a backup executor to take on the role if the principal executor is not available. If none of the executors you’ve requested are available, we must receive a court approved notice indicating who the court’s designated executor is for your estate. Note that if you have no executors/agents designated or you have delayed authenticating your executors, your sensitive encrypted data will be lost as the keys to decrypt sensitive data are not accessible to LVED.

Your executor (or another designated individual you’ve pre-approved) registers your passing with LVED. If your executor is unaware of your circumstances, your family, using a printed letter we provide, can contact the executor through LVED. After your death is registered by an authorized individual, we will attempt to contact you using both phone and email in case you have not in fact passed or been incapacitated. After your selected cooling-off period (typically 2 days) has elapsed without a response from you, the executor is given access to your designated information.

Yes, you may designate specific personal messages as private. In which case, the executor can only release the messages to the recipients, but they cannot see the message or who the intended recipients are.

Yes, stories can be made available to your friends and family at any time. Access to your stories is granted by sharing a secure and revokable web link.

Yes, you can revoke access. A new link will need to be shared to gain access again.

After printing your legal document (will or others), you will need to follow the state specific (e.g. Massachusetts vs. California) instructions attached to the document. For a will, legalization typically requires signing the document in the presence of two witnesses and a notary. Once you’ve executed (or legalized/signed) the document, you upload a copy of the final signed page - the one with the QR code to complete the process. In the future, you may optionally store a physical copy of your will in LVED’s physical vault.

Yes, you may select different individuals to fill these roles, but we recommend using the same individual for both.

It depends.

If your subscription is cancelled or expires after your death is registered, no content can be added or changed, but your vault, messages, and stories remain accessible for 1 year after your subscription ends. During this time, your executor can continue to leverage the platform and share documents with others.

If your subscription is cancelled prior to your death, access to your vault, messages and stories is paused until your subscription is brought up to date. If you renew your subscription retroactive to the cancellation date within 3 years, you will not experience a data loss. If you renew after 3 years, your data will need to be recreated or uploaded if you previously downloaded it.

You may download documents/attachments in your vault as well as stories and personal messages you’ve captured as long as you maintain a valid subscription. If you’ve died while holding a valid subscription, your executor and those they have shared access with have 1 year after your subscription terminates to download the content.

A secure link will be sent to your mobile phone or email. When clicking on the link, you will be asked to verify your identity, once confirmed, you will be given access to the message.

Yes, if you create an account, you can download/save messages and securely communicate with the executor, see additional documents, such as heirloom stories in addition to any notes the decedent has left about items you’re inheriting….