Included with the assorted shopping bags and file storage boxes full of paper recently delivered for a new estate administration file was a personal laptop computer requiring an access password which no one seemed to know. Based upon a cursory review of the documents (which don’t include many current paper statements), it appears that our (former) client maintained a number of active online bank, brokerage and email accounts. We have yet to discover any information that suggests what the username, password or other access information to these accounts might be.

If this matter is consistent with similar recent experiences, we will not find that information absent the intervention of a skilled computer technician — if then.

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