Digital Asset Law

Do you have Crypto or NFTs?

On the 2nd of December 2025 the Property Act (Digital Asset Law) gave legal status to digital assets and ensured that they can be included in personal estates. Until this point the law only recognized physical assets or rights enforceable by law. To be clear this doesn’t make every online item an inheritance asset. Social media, e-mail accounts and subscription services for film and music all have usage licenses rather than ownership rights so they remain unaffected by this new law. Having recognised them it also changes what Executors and Trustees of estates have to do in the management of these items as they need to be able to access the secure private keys. If you need to know more about the manage digital asset inheritance and secure ways of transferring them through the generations then get in touch.