My suggestion: Get a familial domain and use something like Google Apps for Domains (though you have to pay for it now). In this case, there is someone with adm

My suggestion: Get a familial domain and use something like Google Apps for Domains (though you have to pay for it now). In this case, there is someone with admin/root level access to the accounts. There's still an issue if the admin passes on, but you could always have two people with admin access.