The assets always remain under the control of the asset-holder.  There is no third-party escrow.  Our solution is a decentralized encryption storage method that includes the cold-storage afforded by our SafeKey technology. Our solution involves the use of multiple trusted parties, decentralized storage of credentials and dead-man switches to ensure the safety of accessible information.   Even if the contacts that hold SafeKeys with the stored information attempt to come together to merge the shares of encrypted data [using Inheriti], dead-man switches will activate and warn the owner of the assets of the potential merge process is initiated. The owner can stop the process by following the directions he specified for the DMS when he made the inheritance plan.