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Estate & wills

Draft your will, get it witnessed, and keep it current

Inside My Life's Vault, ARIA guides you through drafting your will in plain language, invites your witnesses by email, locks the signed version, and nudges you to review it as life changes.

6 min read

Insights

The preparedness gap: why families are simultaneously overprepared and underprepared

Preparedness is not determined by the existence of information — it's determined by its transferability. The three layers of preparedness, and why most families never reach the third.

7 min read

Affairs in order

The missing category between life and estate planning

Financial planning builds wealth. Estate planning transfers it. Neither was designed for continuity — the practical layer that determines whether families can actually navigate what comes in between.

7 min read

Insights

The hidden cost of not getting your affairs in order

Continuity — not accumulation — is the quiet layer beneath every financial plan. Why families struggle during crises, and what closing the visibility gap really looks like.

6 min read

Buyer's guides

How My Life's Vault compares to other digital legacy platforms

A direct, side-by-side look at how My Life's Vault differs from Everplans, Trust & Will, Cake and other options — and where another product may be the better fit.

6 min read

Insights

How to choose a digital vault in 2026: 10 features that actually matter

A practical guide to evaluating digital vaults in 2026 — the ten features that genuinely matter for security, family access, digital legacy and long-term reliability.

9 min read