CHRISTINE ALLEMAN TALKS SENSE WITH ST YLE
ARTICLE BY JJ ABERNATHY | PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF TRUSTSAFE For several years, I have been concerned about the trust my husband (now deceased) and I set up more than 20 years ago. Over a decade ago, we revised it with a different attorney to accommodate some family changes. Unfortunately, both attorneys are no longer practicing law. My trust is sitting in a binder in my office in disarray, due to one of the attorneys handing me loose sheets to organize—and what I thought would be simple, simply wasn’t. What if a fire destroyed my documents? What if I misplaced or lost them? What would happen to my estate plan if I suddenly died?
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Recently, I had the good fortune to meet Christine Alleman, founder and CEO of TrustSafe LLC. Christine shared some sobering statistics—and a solution to my dilemma. As people increasingly conduct business virtually, the Uniform Law Commission passed legislation authorizing electronically created and executed estate documents to keep up with modern technological advances. There is now a way to keep my documents safe—a trusted place to safeguard my estate documents for a relatively small fee. TrustSafe’s digital vault protects them from becoming lost, stolen, damaged or altered.