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1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts
I am not planning to die anytime soon, but sometimes things happen.
Beyond securing my 1Password details in an Escrow account, or with a lawyer, or in a bank lockbox, does 1Password offer any mean...
Please scroll up and read my post dated May 16. I discussed how to provide email access in the process I designed for to allow for legacy access to my 1Password account. For a family account, the process is pretty simple. Just set up a shared vault with your trusted family organizer that contains only my email address and password. That way, in an emergency, through the standard family recovery process he/she can easily gain access to all my vaults if necessary. Since my family organizer is a trusted friend, I do not lose sleep over them abusing my email account.
The process becomes a little more complicated if you have a individual account and a recovery key (and no shared vault). But in that case, you can provide your recovery key, email address and password to your executor, trustee or power of attorney in a legal document (like your will or trust) only to be used in the event of your demise.
In either case, no one else has access to your master password or secret key unless you become incapacitated. Neither process is totally perfect, but I don't believe in making the perfect the enemy of the good. I feel these two options are good enough until such time as 1Password provides a completely automated process.
I hope this helps,
Dean
