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Firm Spotlight: Flat-Fee Digital Estate Planning in Jacksonville

JD Woods Law PLC spotlights its flat-fee Last Will + Digital Planning service, which builds the digital-asset provisions, fiduciary access language and digital asset inventory most existing Florida wills lack.

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Jonathan D. Woods, Esq.

Jonathan D. Woods, Esq.

Licensed in Florida and Illinois. Jacksonville, Florida. FL Bar #0145017 | IL Bar #6230549.

Reviewed for accuracy by Jonathan D. Woods, Esq..

Florida-specific. Information is general and not legal advice.

JD Woods Law PLC is spotlighting its flat-fee Last Will + Digital Planning service for Jacksonville, Florida residents whose estate plans predate their digital lives. The service builds what most existing wills lack: digital-asset provisions and fiduciary access language that work with Chapter 740 of the Florida Statutes, which governs a personal representative's access to a decedent's email, cloud storage, payment accounts, and cryptocurrency. A personal representative can generally obtain a catalog of electronic communications and the other digital assets without special wording, but access to the content of electronic communications requires the user's consent (in a will, another document or a provider's online tool) or a court order. A will that simply disposes of "all my property" says nothing about access to digital assets, and a direction the user gave through a provider's online tool can override it if the tool lets the user change or delete it at any time.

The gap is common and quiet. Florida's Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act reads three sources in a fixed order (a provider's online tool first, if it lets the user change or delete the choice at any time; the estate documents next; and the terms of service only if the first two are silent), which means a legacy-contact setting configured years ago can override a will no one thought to update. The result is families locked out of photos, income-generating accounts, and self-custody crypto wallets whose recovery phrases were never recorded anywhere a fiduciary could find them.

The firm's approach pairs legal authority with practical access: digital-asset provisions in the will and durable power of attorney, and a digital asset inventory with executor instructions, delivered in a flat-fee package that also includes a healthcare surrogate designation, a living will, and a HIPAA release. Trust formation and tax planning are not included.

Service details and the intake form are at /last-will-digital-planning. The firm also publishes a free Digital Asset Inventory worksheet, and the underlying analysis is in the article on the five documents that decide who controls your digital estate.