Probate. The court supervises the transfer.
It is an institution or public programme.
It exists to relieve Everything owned must go to someone. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Probate and inheritance law. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
Solving that problem created new ones: Probate is slow, public, and expensive and Heirs fight. Follow those and you find the next generation of products built on top of this one.
1 organisations in this map sell it.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionProbate
- FrictionEverything owned must go to someone
- Life phaseDeath
- Rooted inMortality
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inUncertainty
Relieves
Created these new problems
Second-order frictions. This is where most of the modern economy actually lives.
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trust & Will | private | online wills, trusts, guardianship nomination |