Schema Reference
Full reference for every entity type in the INHERIT data model. 46 schemas across core entities, assets, and common types.
Core Estate
Top-level containers for estate data.
People & Roles
Individuals, organisations, and the roles they play in an estate.
Executor
A person appointed to administer an estate. Includes professional executors, administrators (intestacy), and …
Guardian
A guardian appointment for a minor child. Supports testamentary, court-appointed, shariah court, community-appointed, …
Kinship
A familial bond between two people. Essential for intestacy calculation — inheritance rules in every jurisdiction depend …
Organisation
An organisation that interacts with the estate — legal firms, financial institutions, charities, dealers, funeral …
Person
A person involved in the estate. Schema.org name alignment. Any Unicode script. Supports CJK phonetic readings, …
Relationship
Spousal/partnership relationship. N-partner support (no structural two-partner limit). Event-based timeline (status …
Assets & Property
Real estate, financial assets, personal property, valuations, and liabilities.
Asset
A non-property asset: financial accounts, personal property, vehicles, digital assets, business interests, Islamic …
Asset Collection
A named group of related assets — e.g. a model railway collection, vinyl record library, or art portfolio. Lets families …
Asset Interest
Captures expressions of interest about an asset, collection, or product from any perspective — owner wishlists, …
InsurancePolicy
A standalone insurance policy entity — life, home, health, motor, travel, pet, or professional indemnity. Life insurance …
Liability
A debt or financial obligation. Includes mortgages, loans, credit cards, and cultural obligations (mahr, ketubah debt, …
Pet
A pet or animal requiring care arrangements after the owner's death
Property
Real estate. Supports individual ownership, communal/family property (Nigeria), HUF coparcenary (India), …
Space
A distinguishable space within or associated with a property — rooms, outbuildings, storage areas, and outdoor zones …
Valuation
A valuation of an estate asset, property, or asset collection. Supports multiple valuations per entity over time — owner …
Distribution & Wishes
How assets are allocated — bequests, trusts, transfers, and the testator's wishes.
Bequest
A disposition of property or money in a will. Supports 7 core types (specific, pecuniary, demonstrative, general, …
Dealer Interest
Level D data — records third-party interest in estate assets (art dealers, property investors, collectors). …
Lifetime Transfer
A gift or transfer made during the testator's lifetime, relevant for tax calculations such as the UK 7-year rule, US …
Nonprobate Transfer
Assets that pass outside the probate estate — revocable trusts, TOD deeds, POD accounts, JTWROS, beneficiary …
Trust
A trust instrument — testamentary or inter vivos. Covers discretionary, bare, life interest, charitable, nil rate band, …
Wish
A non-binding (or culturally/religiously binding) wish — funeral, letter of wishes, care instructions, pet care, digital …
Documents & Events
Legal documents, attestations, notifications, and lifecycle events.
Acknowledgement
Records that a person has acknowledged a role or entitlement in the estate
Attestation
A first-class attestation entity recording will execution formalities. Each attestation has its own identity — supports …
Document
A document associated with an estate — wills, codicils, trust deeds, and other legal documents. Extension types use the …
Event
An event that occurred during estate administration. The INHERIT document carries its own audit trail via the events …
Notification
A notification sent to a person or organisation during estate administration — beneficiary notifications, executor …
Proxy Authorisation
Authorises a proxy to act on behalf of a testator — information gathering, communication, negotiation, or full …
Subscription
A recurring subscription that needs to be cancelled, transferred, or maintained after death — streaming, utilities, …
Governance
Conformance and interoperability declarations.
Common Types
Shared types used across multiple schemas — addresses, money, identifiers, provenance.
AiProvenance
Records which AI model produced a piece of data and whether a human has verified it. Basic provenance is in INHERIT …
Audit Event
A single audit event recording who changed what, when, and why. Designed for enterprise audit trail requirements, …
Completeness
A completeness score derived from a weighted checklist of estate data categories, scoped to a specific jurisdiction and …
Cultural Disposition
Cultural, religious, and regulatory constraints on how an asset or property may be disposed of. Covers sacred status, …
FieldProvenance
Records how a specific field's value was obtained — manual entry, AI extraction, import, OCR, or computation
Identifier
A typed external identifier. Use 'system' to namespace identifiers and prevent collisions across jurisdictions and …
INHERIT Error Code Registry
Machine-readable registry of all INHERIT error codes. Used by validators, SDKs, and tooling
Jurisdiction
A legal jurisdiction identified by ISO 3166 codes. Succession law varies not just by country but by subdivision — …
Media
A media attachment — photograph, video, or document scan. Used for identification, valuation, condition documentation, …
Money
Monetary value in integer minor currency units with ISO 4217 code. Never floating point
PostalAddress
A physical address. Culturally neutral — supports any global addressing convention
Provenance
Consolidated provenance metadata for any entity — replaces the 5-7 scattered provenance fields that were previously …
TaxPosition
An estimated tax position for an estate in a specific jurisdiction, including gross and net values, available …
TemporalRule
A jurisdiction rule value with effective dates, legislative status, and change history
Visibility
Reusable visibility level controlling which parties can see an entity. Used across dealer interests, asset interests, …