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 the one thing most existing wills lack: the express authority a personal representative needs, under Chapter 740 of the Florida Statutes, to reach a decedent's email, cloud storage, payment accounts, and cryptocurrency. A will that simply disposes of "all my property" does not carry that authority, and providers increasingly require it in writing before they will disclose anything.
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, 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: express digital-asset language in the will, trust, and durable power of attorney; a maintained digital asset inventory; and reconciliation of provider online-tool settings so every document points the same direction. For most clients who already have a will and trust, this is a discrete flat-fee add-on rather than a full redraft.
Service details and the intake form are at /services/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.