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The Keyholder® Advantage
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The Problem
Where are your important documents, such as your Will,
Living Will or Power of Attorney? Once people create
these critical documents, they often do not tell their friends or family
members where they are stored. Even if you do tell them, there is no guarantee that
many years later they will
remember what you told them, or that you will be able to keep them informed
every time you move your documents to a new location. Contrary to what many
lawyers might tell you, most people do not store these documents in a safety
deposit box at a bank. Instead, these documents are more likely to be kept somewhere in
your home, often well hidden from prying eyes.
What are your assets? You should not
provide a detailed list of your assets in your legal Will. If you do, then
every time there is a change in your possessions, you will have to update
your Will. Instead, you should document your assets separately, such that
they can be communicated to the “Executor” of your Will after you have
passed away. Your Executor will make good use of this information to locate
all of the assets in your estate.
The Solution
The Keyholder® system. Here at PartingWishes.com, we have developed the
Keyholder® system, which allows your designated friends or family members to
locate your documents and important information. But don't worry.
Security mechanisms are in place which protect you from anyone attempting to access your documents
and information prematurely.
When you pass away, let us worry about communicating
the location of your documents and a list of your assets. The Keyholder®
system includes a
unique messaging service which allows you to describe the exact location of
your documents, such as your Will and Power of Attorney, and to provide a detailed list of assets for your Executor.
It’s FREE. This optional service is provided for
FREE to all members of PartingWishes.com.
There is simply no other
company that provides such a complete and convenient service to their
customers.
Your privacy is fully protected. The messages you
create which document your assets and the location of your documents are
completely private and secure. The Keyholder® system ensures that your
documents are stored in a fully encrypted format
on our servers. It's so secure that no one can read them --- not even us. Furthermore, none
of the information you provide is communicated until after you become
mentally incapacitated or have passed
away, and only to the people you specify, so you can rest assured that your
privacy is protected. And you are free to make changes any time you wish,
free of charge.
You can even store your legal documents online. Storing your
legal documents, such as your Will, Living Will and Power of Attorney,
online on our secure server is optional (and free), but it is a good
idea for a number of reasons. First of all, it allows you to make unlimited
modifications and updates to your documents without having to rewrite them each
time, and for no additional charge. (Why pay a lawyer every time you need to
update your Will?) Furthermore, although these online versions of your
documents are
not legally binding (as they are not signed and witnessed), they may be
useful to loved ones if your original legal documents cannot be located.
The Security
We have developed the Keyholder® security system to protect you from anyone accessing your documents
and information prematurely.
As a PartingWishes.com member, you can specify up to 20
friends or family members, each of whom will be given
the power to access your wishes when the time is right. For each person
you identify, you can specify exactly what specific information they can
access, such as:
 | your funeral wishes |
| sending final messages that you have prewritten to your
family or friends |
| enabling a permanent web page that you have created
about your life |
| the contents of your Last Will and Testament |
| health care directives contained in your Living Will,
if you are unable to communicate them yourself |
| your Power of Attorney document, which contains
directions about the handling of your finances if you are incapacitated |
The Keyholder® system includes specific security mechanisms
which protect the secure integrity of your information and prevent unauthorized premature
access to your documents and services. These mechanisms are fully customizable by
you.
Here’s how it works: |
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Step 1: |
You create your
documents using the MyFuneral, MyMessages, MyWill, MyPowerOfAttorney and other services, and
grant at least one close friend or family member to have future access to
these documents.
The
documents are encrypted by the Keyholder® security system, stored on the PartingWishes.com secure server, and paper
copies can also be printed. |
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Step 2: |
The individuals you specified are
notified of their responsibilities and given a secure ID to be used for
accessing your documents at the appropriate time.
If you wish, you can also send each of these people their secure ID printed onto a
plastic wallet card for safe keeping. |
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Step 3: |
You can continue to make
unlimited updates to your documents on the PartingWishes.com server. |
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Step 4: |
When
you become mentally incapacitated or pass away, your designated individuals request to
access your documents on the server.
To prevent premature access
to your documents, the Keyholder® security system sends an automatic notification
to your email address, explaining who is attempting to access your documents. |
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Step 5: |
If
you do not respond
to the notification within a period of time specified by you, then the
Keyholder® security system decrypts your documents and makes them accessible
by your designated friends or family members. |
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