Solutions · Estate planning
The paperwork, organised. The instructions, clear.
Kistkeep doesn't replace a solicitor or write your Will. It keeps the documents and instructions your executor needs organised and easy to find, exactly when it matters.
Where estate planning usually breaks down
A Will that no one can find isn't much help.
Even a carefully written Will and a named executor can't do their job if the paperwork is scattered, or if no one knows a Power of Attorney exists until it's too late. Kistkeep keeps everything an executor needs in one organised, findable place.
Scotland's rules around digital assets are evolving, and Kistkeep is built with Scots law in mind from day one, alongside support for the rest of the UK and the EU.
Document types Kistkeep organises for you
- Will and Testament
- Power of Attorney
- Property Ownership Record
- Life Insurance Policy
- Letter of Wishes
- Executor Checklist
Give your executor a head start, not a scavenger hunt.
An Executor Checklist and Letter of Wishes, stored alongside the documents they'll actually need, so the person handling your estate isn't starting from nothing.
What an executor typically has to do.
None of these steps are things Kistkeep replaces, they're legal and administrative processes an executor still has to complete. What Kistkeep removes is the time lost hunting for the information needed at each one.
- 1
Locate the Will and confirm the executor
The very first practical step, and the one that stalls the longest when the Will isn't somewhere obvious.
- 2
Identify assets, digital and physical
Bank accounts, property, investments, and increasingly, digital assets like crypto, domain names, and online business accounts that have no paper trail at all.
- 3
Apply for Confirmation (or Probate)
In Scotland this is called Confirmation, not Probate, the legal authority an executor needs to deal with an estate's assets.
- 4
Settle debts and distribute the estate
The final administrative step, made considerably easier when account details and instructions were already organised somewhere findable.
The specific gap digital assets create.
Estate planning was designed around physical and financial assets that leave a paper trail. Digital assets often don't.
No single register of digital assets
Unlike a house or a bank account, there's no public record of what online accounts, crypto wallets, or digital subscriptions someone held. If it isn't written down, it may never be found.
Terms of service, not estate law, often decide access
Many platforms' own terms restrict account access after death regardless of what a Will says, which is exactly why documenting login and account information directly matters.
Crypto in particular is unforgiving
A lost seed phrase is not like a lost bank card, there is no customer service line that can reset it. If it's not recorded and shared securely, it can be gone permanently.
A note on legal advice
Kistkeep is an organisational tool, not a substitute for a solicitor. Scots law on digital assets is genuinely still developing, and the right legal structure for your specific estate is a conversation worth having with a qualified professional. What Kistkeep can do is make sure that whatever your solicitor and executor need is actually findable when the time comes.
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