RUFADAA, the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, is model legislation developed by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) to address the legal issues surrounding access to digital assets after an individual's death or incapacitation.
The Eternal Me platform is built to support compliance with RUFADAA. It's important to understand, however, that RUFADAA compliance isn't something any single tool delivers on its own. It's maintained through the coordination of three things working together: your estate plan, the data custodians who hold your digital assets (banks, email providers, cloud services, and the like), and the specific access instructions you maintain within your Eternal account. Eternal provides the mechanism to record and communicate your wishes in a RUFADAA-aware structure, but the effectiveness of that framework depends on those instructions being kept current and aligned with your broader estate plan.
Because the underlying legislation varies from state to state, and differs again across Canadian provinces, we strongly recommend consulting your estate planning attorney to ensure your digital asset directives are valid and enforceable in your jurisdiction. Notably, Louisiana and Massachusetts have not adopted RUFADAA, so residents of those states in particular should seek tailored legal guidance.
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