The problem
A password nobody can guess is a wall nobody can climb.
Estate law was written for houses and jewellery. It has no answer for a seed phrase in your head, a domain on auto-renew, or a video you meant your daughter to see at eighteen.
Crypto
The keys die with the person.
No court order recovers a seed phrase. No exchange can reverse it. The balance stays visible on-chain and unreachable forever.
Accounts
Subscriptions keep billing an estate.
Cloud storage, domains, software plans. Charges continue against a closed account until someone finds the receipts.
Documents
The will is found after the fight.
Executors spend weeks proving they are entitled to files that were sitting in a locked phone the whole time.
Messages
Instructions arrive too late to follow.
Funeral wishes, letters, the things people most want passed on, surface months after they mattered.