How do Executors and other fiduciaries obtain access to Internet accounts of the deceased?

Mississippi adopted the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act in 2017 that provides for access to Internet accounts and digital assets.

The act contains the following sections.

§ 91-23-1. Short title.
§ 91-23-3. Definitions.
§ 91-23-5. Applicability.
§ 91-23-7. User direction for disclosure of digital assets.
§ 91-23-9. Terms-of-service agreement.
§ 91-23-11. Procedure for disclosing digital assets.
§ 91-23-13. Disclosure of content of electronic communications of deceased user.
§ 91-23-15. Disclosure of other digital assets of deceased user.
§ 91-23-17. Disclosure of content of electronic communications of principal.
§ 91-23-19. Disclosure of other digital assets of principal.
§ 91-23-21. Disclosure of digital assets held in trust when trustee is original user.
§ 91-23-23. Disclosure of contents of electronic communications held in trust when trustee not original user.
§ 91-23-25. Disclosure of other digital assets held in trust when trustee not original user.
§ 91-23-27. Disclosure of digital assets to conservator of protected person.
§ 91-23-29. Fiduciary duty and authority.
§ 91-23-31. Custodian compliance and immunity.
§ 91-23-33. Uniformity of application and construction.
§ 91-23-35. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

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