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Nebraska Digital Assets After Death
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Nebraska Digital Assets After Death

Nebraska adopted the digital assets act at Neb. Rev. Stat. 30-501. An online tool outranks a will, and a custodian has 60 days to answer.

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A Nebraska estate now almost always holds property that never existed on paper: an email account, a photo library in the cloud, a bank login, a grain marketing portal, sometimes a hardware wallet in a desk drawer. Nebraska answered the question of who may reach those accounts in Laws 2016, LB829, and that answer sits at Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 30-501 to 30-518.

Three rules carry most of the weight. A direction the account holder gave through the provider's own online tool beats a will. The content of messages is walled off from everything else and needs consent. And a custodian that receives a proper request has sixty days to answer.

Two Nebraska details separate this page from a national explainer. The court that hears the fight is the county court, not a district court. And the act reaches a conservator while never once mentioning a guardian.

Nebraska Named the Act in One Sentence and Dated It to 2017

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-501 does the naming: sections 30-501 to 30-518 shall be known and may be cited as the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (2015). Every section of the act still carries the same amendment chain, Laws 2016, LB829, so nothing in it has been rewritten since enactment.

Section 30-503 sets the reach, and it looks backward as well as forward. The act applies to a fiduciary acting under a will or power of attorney executed before, on or after January 1, 2017, to a personal representative acting for a decedent who died before, on or after that date, to a conservatorship proceeding commenced at any point, and to a trustee acting under a trust created at any point. An old document and an old death are both inside it.

Two limits sit in the same section. Subsection (b) reaches a custodian if the user resides in Nebraska or resided here at the time of death. Subsection (c) carves out a digital asset of an employer used by an employee in the ordinary course of the employer's business, so a work laptop and a work inbox belong to the employer rather than to the estate.

The Forum Is the County Court

Section 30-502(7) settles the forum in five words: court means the county court. Nebraska has no separate probate court, so every application this act allows goes to the same county court that appoints the personal representative and hears the inheritance tax petition. Find yours in the Nebraska county courts directory, and the Nebraska probate guide covers how the appointment itself works.

That matters more than it looks. Section 30-516(a) lets a fiduciary apply to the court when a custodian ignores a request, section 30-506(d) lets either side ask the court to resolve an undue-burden dispute, and section 30-507 lets a custodian demand a court finding before releasing message content. All three land in the county court of the county already handling the estate.

What Counts as a Digital Asset in Nebraska

Section 30-502(10) defines a digital asset as an electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest, then draws the line that matters for an inventory: the term does not include an underlying asset or liability unless the asset or liability is itself an electronic record.

Read the two halves together and the working scope comes out like this:

  • Email accounts on Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and the rest
  • Cloud storage and photo libraries on iCloud, Google Photos or Dropbox
  • Social media profiles on Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and TikTok
  • Exchange accounts holding Bitcoin, Ethereum or other tokens
  • Domain names and websites the person registered or ran
  • Online banking, PayPal and payment app logins
  • Grain marketing, farm management and crop insurance portals, which many Nebraska families reach only through a website login
  • Loyalty balances such as airline miles and card points
  • Subscriptions that keep billing the estate every month
  • Online storefronts, ad accounts and affiliate accounts

The login and the data behind it are the digital asset. The money behind a bank login is not, and neither is the corn in the bin behind a marketing portal, because neither one is itself an electronic record. Those pass under ordinary Nebraska law.

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The Order Nebraska Reads Your Directions In

Section 30-504 sets a three-step order, and a Nebraska fiduciary works down it in sequence.

Step one, the online tool. Subsection (a) lets a user direct a custodian, through an online tool, to disclose to a designated recipient or not to disclose some or all digital assets, including the content of electronic communications. Where the tool allows the user to modify or delete a direction at all times, that direction overrides a contrary direction by the user in a will, trust, power of attorney or other record. Section 30-502(16) defines the online tool narrowly, as an electronic service the custodian provides in an agreement distinct from the terms-of-service agreement, so a checkbox buried inside the terms of service does not qualify.

The named examples are ones many Nebraskans already have. Google Inactive Account Manager releases chosen data to chosen people after a set period of inactivity. Facebook Legacy Contact names someone to manage a memorialized profile. Apple Legacy Contact names someone who can request Apple Account data after a death.

That first step also creates a person the rest of the act keeps referring to. Section 30-502(9) defines a designated recipient as a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer the user's digital assets, and section 30-516 lets a designated recipient make a request and go to the county court over it without any appointment from a judge.

Step two, your own documents. Subsection (b) applies where the user did not use an online tool or the custodian provided none. Then the user may allow or prohibit disclosure in a will, trust, power of attorney or other record. This is the tier a Nebraska attorney drafts for, and planning for online accounts in advance is one of the cheapest moves on the whole list.

Step three, the terms of service. With no online tool and no direction in a document, the agreement between user and provider decides. Section 30-505(c) says a fiduciary's access may be modified or eliminated by a user, by federal law or by a terms-of-service agreement if the user has not provided direction under section 30-504.

One counterweight sits in section 30-504(c). A user's direction overrides a contrary terms-of-service provision that does not require the user to act affirmatively and distinctly from the user's assent to the terms of service. A buried clause loses to a real choice.

Section 30-505(b) sets the ceiling on all three tiers. The act gives a fiduciary or designated recipient no new or expanded rights beyond those held by the user for whom the fiduciary acts. Access is inherited, never enlarged.

Content and Catalogue Are Two Different Requests

Nebraska splits a deceased person's communications across two sections, and that split decides what a personal representative actually reads. Nebraska spells the word catalogue, which is worth matching in a request letter.

  • The catalogue, defined at section 30-502(4), is information that identifies each person with which a user has had an electronic communication, the time and date of the communication, and the electronic address of the person. The definition stops there. It does not reach the subject line.
  • The content, defined at section 30-502(6), is information concerning the substance or meaning of a communication that the user sent or received, that a custodian holds in electronic storage or carries as a remote-computing service, and that is not readily accessible to the public.

Section 30-508 covers the catalogue and every other digital asset. A custodian shall disclose it to the personal representative unless the user prohibited disclosure of digital assets or the court directs otherwise.

Section 30-507 covers content, and it opens only if a deceased user consented or a court directs disclosure.

So a Nebraska personal representative can often learn that the decedent exchanged messages with a lender on a given date without being able to read what those messages said. Broad authority language in a will does not close that gap. Consent to disclosure of the content of electronic communications has to be written in.

What a Nebraska Personal Representative Sends a Custodian

Both routes run on a short document list.

For the catalogue and other digital assets under section 30-508, the representative gives the custodian a written request for disclosure in physical or electronic form, a certified copy of the death certificate of the user, and a certified copy of the letter of appointment of the representative or a small-estate affidavit or court order. If the custodian asks, add the account identifier, evidence linking the account to the user, an affidavit stating that disclosure is reasonably necessary for administration of the estate, or a county court finding to the same effect.

For content under section 30-507, add one item: unless the user provided direction using an online tool, a copy of the user's will, trust, power of attorney or other record evidencing the user's consent to disclosure of the content of electronic communications. A custodian may also ask the county court to find that the user had a specific identifiable account, that disclosure would not violate 18 U.S.C. 2701 et seq. or 47 U.S.C. 222 or other applicable law, that the user consented, or that disclosure is reasonably necessary for administration of the estate.

Date the request and keep proof of delivery, because the sixty-day clock in section 30-516 runs from receipt of the required information rather than from the day you first wrote. What the fiduciary sending that letter is appointed to do is worked through in the Nebraska executor duties guide.

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The $100,000 Affidavit Sits on the Same Document List

Sections 30-507(3), 30-508(3) and the account-termination list at section 30-515(g)(2) all accept a small-estate affidavit as an alternative to a certified letter of appointment. Some states leave the affidavit off the termination list and accept it only for disclosure. Nebraska names it on all three, so a successor who never opened a court case can ask for the records and ask for the account to be closed.

Nebraska puts that affidavit at section 30-24,125, and its own conditions are the ones to read before drafting a request letter.

  • Thirty days after the death. The section opens with the wait, and it is the reason nothing can be sent in the first week.
  • One hundred thousand dollars. The affidavit states that the value of all of the personal property in the decedent's estate, wherever located, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed that figure. The section's amendment chain ends at Laws 2025, LB85.
  • No personal representative anywhere. Subdivision (a)(5) requires that no application or petition for the appointment of a personal representative is pending or has been granted in any jurisdiction.
  • Sworn under the perjury statute. Subdivision (a)(4) has the successor acknowledge that a false statement may bring penalties relating to perjury under section 28-915.

That third condition is the one that surprises people. The affidavit route and letters of appointment are alternatives rather than a belt-and-braces pair, and sections 30-507 and 30-508 are both written as disclosures to the personal representative. Section 30-502(18) defines that term as an executor, administrator, special administrator, or person that performs substantially the same function under Nebraska law other than this act, so a successor holding an affidavit and nothing else has to reach that last clause. A cautious custodian may read those two things together and ask for letters anyway. Say in the letter which route you are on and why the other one is closed to you. The Nebraska small estate affidavit guide covers the form and what the hundred-thousand-dollar test counts, and the ways a Nebraska estate skips court entirely covers the rest of that family.

Custodians Get Sixty Days

Section 30-516(a) is the deadline that gives a Nebraska family real footing. Not later than sixty days after receipt of the information required under sections 30-507 to 30-515, a custodian shall comply with a request from a fiduciary or designated recipient to disclose digital assets or terminate an account. Where it fails to comply, the fiduciary or designated recipient may apply to the court for an order directing compliance, and subsection (b) says that order must contain a finding that compliance is not in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2702.

Four more subsections shape how that plays out.

  • Subsection (c) lets the custodian notify the user that a request was made.
  • Subsection (d) lets the custodian deny a request where it is aware of any lawful access to the account following the receipt of the fiduciary's request, which is a reason to stop logging in on the decedent's behalf once you have asked.
  • Subsection (e) preserves the custodian's ability to require a court order about a protected person or principal, covering account ownership, sufficient consent, and any finding required by law other than this act.
  • Subsection (f) grants the custodian and its officers, employees and agents immunity from liability for an act or omission done in good faith in compliance with the act.

What a Nebraska Custodian May Do With Your Request

Section 30-506 gives the provider room, and knowing the room saves an argument.

At its sole discretion, the custodian may grant full account access, grant partial access sufficient to perform the tasks the fiduciary is charged with, or provide a copy in a record of any digital asset that the user could have accessed on the date the custodian received the request. It may assess a reasonable administrative charge for the cost of disclosing. It need not disclose a digital asset deleted by a user. And where segregating a partial request would impose an undue burden, either side may seek a county court order for a subset limited by date, for everything, for nothing, or for everything to the court for review in camera.

So a request for one folder of email can lawfully come back as a full export, a refusal, or a court hearing. Ask for the narrowest set that answers your question and say in the letter why it is narrow.

Section 30-517 tells a Nebraska court applying the act to give consideration to the need for uniformity of the law among the states that enact it. That is worth a sentence in a letter to an out-of-state provider used to another state's version. Section 30-518 handles the federal overlay, modifying the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act without touching its section 101(c) consumer-consent rules.

Nebraska Leaves Digital Assets Off Its Hot Powers List

Here is the Nebraska drafting point that no form book prints, and it cuts both ways.

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-4024(1) is the Nebraska Uniform Power of Attorney Act's specific-grant section, the list of acts an agent may perform only if that power of attorney expressly grants the authority. It has eight items: creating or revoking an inter vivos trust, making a gift, creating or changing rights of survivorship, creating or changing a beneficiary designation, delegating the agent's authority, waiving a survivor annuity right, exercising delegable fiduciary powers, and renouncing or disclaiming property. Digital assets is not among them, and the section still carries its original chain, Laws 2012, LB1113.

The express-grant requirement for message content lives in the digital assets act instead. Under section 30-509, a custodian discloses content to an agent only to the extent a power of attorney expressly grants the agent authority over the content of electronic communications sent or received by the principal. The agent supplies a written request, an original or copy of that power of attorney, and a certification under penalty of perjury that it remains effective.

Under section 30-510, a custodian discloses the catalogue and other digital assets to an agent with specific authority over digital assets or general authority to act on behalf of the principal, on the same three items. Section 30-4024(3) says a grant of authority to do all acts a principal could do carries the general authority described in sections 30-4027 to 30-4039, so an ordinary Nebraska power of attorney already reaches the catalogue.

The practical consequence is a drafting instruction. The statutory form at section 30-4041 prints no digital-assets line and no box to initial, so the language belongs in that form's Special Instructions block. A Nebraska document that grants sweeping financial authority and never prints the sentence about the content of electronic communications leaves the agent outside section 30-509. Ask for it while you still can, alongside the eight express-grant powers the Nebraska power of attorney guide covers.

A Nebraska Certification of Trust Is Two Subsections Long

A trustee who is the original account holder gets everything. Section 30-511 requires a custodian to disclose to a trustee that is an original user any digital asset of the account held in trust, including the catalogue and the content, unless a court orders otherwise or the trust provides otherwise.

A trustee who is not the original user works through section 30-512 for content and section 30-513 for everything else. Both ask for a written request, a certification by the trustee under penalty of perjury that the trust exists and the trustee is currently acting, and one document: a certified copy of the trust instrument or a certification of the trust under section 30-38,102.

Nebraska's certification of trust is unusually short, and reading it saves a wasted trip. Section 30-38,102(a) lets a trustee present a certification to any person other than a beneficiary in lieu of a copy of the trust instrument, then adds the sentence that decides the argument: no person is required to accept and rely solely on a certification of trust in lieu of a copy of, or excerpts from, the trust instrument itself. A custodian in another state may simply ask for the instrument, and Nebraska law lets it.

Subsection (b) adds the formality most people miss. The certification shall be in the form of an affidavit and signed and acknowledged by all acting trustees of the trust. One cotrustee signing alone does not produce a Nebraska certification.

One more condition attaches on the content side. Section 30-512(2) requires the trust instrument or the certification to include consent to disclosure of the content of electronic communications to the trustee. A bare certification with no consent line opens section 30-513 and leaves section 30-512 closed. Writing that consent into the instrument before it is needed is the cheaper half of Nebraska trust administration.

Nebraska Covers Conservators and Never Mentions Guardians

This is the widest gap between Nebraska and the states that copied the uniform act more closely.

Section 30-502(14) defines a fiduciary as a personal representative, conservator, agent or trustee. There is no definition of guardian anywhere in sections 30-501 to 30-518, and no section of the act gives a guardian a route to a custodian. Nebraska's version reaches the person appointed to manage the estate of a living individual and stops.

Section 30-514 is that person's section, and it ties access to the case rather than to a letter.

Subsection (a) says that after an opportunity for a hearing under section 30-2636, the court may grant a conservator access to the digital assets of a protected person. Section 30-502(21) defines a protected person as an individual for whom a conservator has been appointed, including one for whom an application is pending.

Subsection (b) then requires a custodian to disclose the catalogue and any digital assets other than the content of electronic communications on a written request plus a certified copy of the court order that gives the conservator authority over the digital assets of the protected person. Read that phrase closely. An appointment order that never names digital assets does not carry the proof that subsection asks for, and a careful custodian will notice.

Subsection (c) separately lets a conservator with general authority to manage the assets of a protected person ask a custodian to suspend or terminate an account for good cause, accompanied by a certified copy of the court order giving authority over the protected person's property.

Ask the county court for the digital-assets language at the appointment hearing rather than afterward. Section 30-2637(3) gives that court, on clear and convincing evidence, all the powers over the protected person's estate and affairs that the person could exercise if present and not under disability, exercisable directly or through the conservator, so the authority to say so is already there. Section 30-2636 sets the hearing itself, and its amendment chain now ends at Laws 2026, LB985, so read the live section rather than a form book. Subsection (c) of the current text gives the person to be protected the right to attend each court hearing virtually or in person, and subsection (d) has the court appoint only after finding clear and convincing evidence for the appointment or other protective order. The Nebraska guardianship guide covers the appointment side.

Fiduciary Duties and the Nebraska Computer Crime Line

Section 30-515 sets the duties that travel with the access.

Subsection (a) applies the duty of care, the duty of loyalty and the duty of confidentiality to digital assets exactly as they apply to tangible property. Subsection (b) subjects the fiduciary's authority to the applicable terms of service except as section 30-504 provides, to other applicable law including copyright law, and to the scope of the fiduciary's duties, then bars using the authority to impersonate the user.

Subsections (c) through (e) matter for anything sitting on a device. A fiduciary with authority over the property of a decedent, protected person, principal or settlor has the right to access any digital asset not held by a custodian or subject to a terms-of-service agreement, is an authorized user for the purpose of applicable computer-fraud and unauthorized-computer-access laws, including the Computer Crimes Act and section 86-2,104, while acting within the scope of the fiduciary's duties, and has the right to access the tangible personal property and any digital asset stored in it.

That authorized-user line is narrower than it sounds, and Nebraska names two separate criminal statutes behind it.

  • The Computer Crimes Act, sections 28-1341 to 28-1348. Section 28-1344 reaches a person who intentionally accesses a computer or network without authorization, or who exceeds the limits of an authorization, and in doing so deprives another of property or services or obtains property or services of another. The grade tracks value: a Class III felony at five thousand dollars or more, a Class IV felony from fifteen hundred dollars, a Class I misdemeanor from five hundred, and a Class II misdemeanor below that.
  • Section 86-2,104, captioned electronic communication service; unauthorized access; penalty. It reaches a person who intentionally accesses without authorization a facility through which an electronic communication service is provided, or exceeds an authorization, and in doing so obtains, alters or prevents authorized access to a communication in electronic storage. The ordinary case is a Class IV felony, while an offense committed for commercial advantage, malicious destruction or private commercial gain is a Class I misdemeanor for a first offense.

Both sections protect a fiduciary acting in role. Neither one covers a family member who knows the password and logs in before anyone is appointed. Use the statutory route and the provider's own channel.

Two practical subsections close section 30-515. Subsection (f) lets a custodian disclose information in an account to a fiduciary when the information is required to terminate an account used to access digital assets licensed to the user. Subsection (g) sets the termination package: a written request, a certified copy of the death certificate where the user is deceased, and a certified copy of the letter of appointment or a small-estate affidavit or court order, or a power of attorney or trust giving the fiduciary authority over the account.

Cryptocurrency Splits Into Two Cases

Crypto divides in Nebraska the way it divides everywhere, and the act reaches only one half cleanly.

On an exchange, the exchange is a custodian. Coinbase, Kraken and their peers hold the keys and run an estates process much like a bank, so the section 30-508 document package and the sixty-day clock in section 30-516 apply.

In a self-custody wallet, there is no custodian at all. Section 30-515(c) gives the fiduciary the right to access an asset held outside any custodian relationship, and that right is a legal permission rather than a technical one. Without the private keys there are no coins, and no county court order changes that.

When you are settling a Nebraska estate that might hold crypto, look for a small hardware device, a written or stamped list of 12 or 24 words, files named wallet, seed or recovery, and exchange confirmation emails. Once you have access, record the holdings and the date-of-death value promptly, because those values swing hard and that figure drives both the inventory and the beneficiary's basis.

For your own planning, keep seed phrases out of unsecured files and out of your will. A Nebraska will becomes a public court record once it is filed for probate.

Steps to Take Now

Three moves cover most of the risk, and none of them needs a lawyer to start.

Set the Online Tools This Week

They sit at the top of the section 30-504 order and they take minutes:

  • Google: Data and privacy, then Make a plan for your account
  • Facebook: Settings, then Memorialization Settings, to name a Legacy Contact
  • Apple: Your name, then Sign-In and Security, then Legacy Contact

Ask for Content Consent in Writing

Have the attorney who drafts your will, trust or power of attorney add language that authorizes your fiduciary to access, manage and close your digital accounts and consents to disclosure of the content of your electronic communications. That consent is what opens section 30-507. A general phrase about handling your affairs does not. If you are signing a Nebraska power of attorney, ask for the section 30-509 sentence in the Special Instructions block, because the statutory form will not prompt you. If you have a trust, ask for the consent line inside the instrument so a section 30-38,102 certification can carry it.

Keep an Inventory, Not a Password List

Write down which accounts exist and where the credentials live, then keep it current. Store the credentials themselves in a password manager, leave a sealed letter of instruction with your estate documents, and point to that separate letter in your will instead of pasting logins into it.

When to Talk With a Nebraska Attorney

Bring a Nebraska estate attorney in when a provider refuses a request that meets the statute, when you need a county court order for content under section 30-507, when a custodian claims an undue burden under section 30-506(d), when a conservatorship order says nothing about digital assets, or when the estate holds a digital business, a monetized channel, or crypto worth real money. Those are the situations where the sixty-day clock in section 30-516 turns into a filing rather than a follow-up email.

Planning ahead costs less than any of that. Setting the online tools and asking for a content-consent clause takes an afternoon and removes the two most common reasons a Nebraska family gets told no.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can a Nebraska executor get into the deceased person's online accounts?

Only on the terms the account holder set. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-504 puts a direction given through the provider's own online tool first, a direction in a will, trust, power of attorney or other record second, and lets the terms-of-service agreement decide only where neither exists. Letters of appointment prove who you are. They do not by themselves prove the deceased user consented to disclosure of message content, which § 30-507 requires before a custodian releases any of it.

When did the Nebraska digital assets law take effect?

Nebraska enacted the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (2015) as Laws 2016, LB829, at Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 30-501 to 30-518, and § 30-503 keys applicability to January 1, 2017. That section reaches backward as well as forward: a fiduciary acting under a will or power of attorney executed before, on or after that date, a personal representative acting for a decedent who died before, on or after it, a conservatorship proceeding commenced at any point, and a trustee under a trust created at any point. A 2009 will and a 2014 death both sit inside the act.

How long does a provider have to answer a Nebraska fiduciary?

Sixty days. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-516(a) requires a custodian to comply with a request to disclose digital assets or terminate an account not later than sixty days after receipt of the information required under §§ 30-507 to 30-515. Where the custodian fails to comply, the fiduciary or designated recipient may apply to the court for an order directing compliance, and subsection (b) says that order must contain a finding that compliance is not in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2702. Court here means the county court, under the definition at § 30-502(7).

Does a Nebraska small estate affidavit work on a digital account?

The statute names it. Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 30-507(3) and 30-508(3) each accept a certified copy of the letter of appointment of the representative or a small-estate affidavit or court order, and the account-termination list at § 30-515(g)(2) names the affidavit too. Nebraska's affidavit sits at § 30-24,125: it runs thirty days after the death, where the value of all personal property in the estate wherever located, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars, and where no application or petition for appointment of a personal representative is pending or has been granted in any jurisdiction. Read that last condition before you write, because it is the reason the affidavit and letters never travel together.

Can a Nebraska executor read the deceased person's emails?

Only with consent or a court order. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-507 opens the content of electronic communications where the deceased user consented or a court directs disclosure, and it asks for a copy of the will, trust, power of attorney or other record evidencing that consent unless the user gave direction through an online tool. Section 30-508 covers the catalogue of electronic communications and every other digital asset on a shorter list. That catalogue, defined at § 30-502(4), names each person the user communicated with, the time and date, and that person's electronic address, and stops there.

What does a Nebraska power of attorney need to say about digital accounts?

It needs a line about the content of electronic communications, and Nebraska keeps that requirement outside its power of attorney act. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-4024(1) lists eight acts an agent may perform only on an express grant, and digital assets is not one of them. The express-grant rule for message content lives in § 30-509 instead, which discloses content to an agent only to the extent a power of attorney expressly grants authority over the content of electronic communications. Section 30-510 is the easier half: a custodian discloses the catalogue and other digital assets to an agent with specific authority over digital assets or general authority to act for the principal.

Do Nebraska guardians and conservators get the same access as an executor?

No, and Nebraska draws the line further than most states do. The act defines fiduciary at Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-502(14) as a personal representative, conservator, agent or trustee, and no section of the act names a guardian at all. Section 30-514 covers the conservator of a protected person: subsection (b) requires a custodian to disclose the catalogue and any digital assets other than the content of electronic communications on a written request plus a certified copy of the court order that gives the conservator authority over the digital assets. Content is not on that list. Subsection (a) instead lets the county court, after an opportunity for a hearing under § 30-2636, grant a conservator access to the digital assets of a protected person.

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