# Blind Legacy Escalation Note

**Draft note - not legal advice. Adapt to inheritance, estate, contract and platform rules.**

Blind Legacy allows a person to preserve encrypted drafts, code, archives, instructions or sensitive material without allowing a steward to read them during life.

Blind Legacy is useful. It is also dangerous.

Decryption is not succession.

## Separate questions

A blind legacy process must separate:

- technical access: can the archive be opened?
- legal entitlement: who has the right to own, publish or use it?
- safety review: may the contents lawfully and safely be opened?
- probate / inheritance path: what legal process governs succession?

## Steward failure

A blind legacy arrangement should anticipate:

- steward death;
- steward incapacity;
- steward refusal;
- steward disappearance;
- key loss;
- conflict of interest;
- platform closure;
- family dispute;
- legal challenge.

## Escalation ladder

Suggested ladder:

1. notice to listed parties;
2. waiting period;
3. protected pause under LARS;
4. attempt to locate alternate anchors;
5. class-separated review;
6. legal/probate bridge;
7. limited technical release only if authorized;
8. audit log of every step.

## Forbidden shortcut

Do not treat possession of a key, envelope, password, seed phrase, repository access or encrypted drive as inheritance.

A key may open a box.

It does not decide who owns what is inside.