# Legal Identity Lifecycle **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Legal Identity / Civil Registration **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established public-administration architecture ## Definition The **Legal Identity Lifecycle** is the public-administration model by which legally recognized identity is created, maintained, updated, and ultimately closed or retired through civil registration and identity systems. ## Continuity Significance It identifies the exact administrative seam where post-biological continuity would have to attach. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence The UN Legal Identity Agenda and national civil-registration systems generally organize identity from birth registration through death registration. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Current systems do not generally treat death as substrate transition. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/UN Legal Identity Agenda and Death|UN Legal Identity Agenda and Death]] · [[wiki/Identity Retirement at Death|Identity Retirement at Death]] · [[wiki/Death Registration as Ontological Boundary|Death Registration as Ontological Boundary]] · [[wiki/Digital Identity Succession|Digital Identity Succession]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://unstats.un.org/legal-identity-agenda/ <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE --> ## Deep-Time Continuity Interface This node is audited through [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] for future control-surface conversion, ontological drift, succession, irreversibility, due process, and resource incidence. The backlink records analytical relevance; it does not establish continuity intent in the present rule or institution. <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE -->