HOW TO PASS ON DIGITAL ASSETS IN YOUR WILL

PHOTOS, videos and music that are stored on equipment such as smartphones and laptops are known as digital assets.

These are as much your possessions as physical items, but they are often forgotten about when estate planning.

You can include digital assets in your will to ensure they are treated how you would wish when you die. Lorraine Robinson is head of legal services at will writing company Farewill. She says: ‘Ideally choose someone who is techsavvy in the family to be a digital executor – they can be someone different from the main executor if you wish.

‘They get permission to handle your passwords and ensure all the digital assets are sorted correctly.’

Social media companies such as Facebook allow you to nominate someone to look after your account when you die.

Go to ‘legacy options’ in settings to save your preferences.

You may also want to keep a back-up of photos and other files you want to be saved for posterity. An external hard drive costs from around £30.