Life Events & Civil Status
Birth, marriage, divorce, death
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lifeEvent The registrable occurrences themselves
vitalEvent
birth and death with place, time and attendants
unionEvent
marriage, partnership, divorce and dissolution
nameAndIdentityChange
registered changes of name and recorded sex or gender marker where the jurisdiction registers them
civilStatus The state a person is in as a result
statusDerivation
how current status follows from the event sequence
statusHistory
the full status timeline with effective dates
certification Proving events and status
certificateReference
links to issued certificates for each event
crossJurisdictionRecognition
recognition of foreign events and certificates
Note: Legacy card: layers named, findings and questions never written.
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- World Models
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- standalone-mm
- Navigation path
- NAV.SOC.PER.CIV
- Domain
- SOC.PER.CIV
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- lifeeventcivilstatussoc.per.civ
- Also called
- B12
What it is Derived, awaiting review
The registrable turning points of a human life, birth, marriage, divorce, death, name change, and the civil status that follows from them, together with the certificates that prove them.
Note: First sentence of the legacy card introduction.
Why it exists Filled
Birth, marriage, divorce, death
Distinguishing features Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
What robots and AI may and may not do Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Moral aspects Derived, awaiting review
- Certificates, verifications and notifications are granted through the S1/S2 access and consent models, with registrar acts and disclosures audited via S4.
Owners Filled
Steward
The person owns their life story and controls its disclosure; the civil registrar owns and answers for the authoritative register the story is anchored in.
Links to other meta-models Filled
references
- world.person - every event concerns persons governed in their own model
- world.identityRegister - birth registration creates the person's identity anchor and death registration retires it
- world.attestationCertificateAndLicense - certificates are attestations issued by the civil registrar
- world.socialProvisionAndBenefit - registered life events trigger entitlement reviews there
extends
- world.registry - the civil register specializes the register pattern, with civil effect as its legal effect
composes
- world.eventRegister - registrations are published to an integrity-proofed event log that downstream models subscribe to
imports
- civil-registration-standards - ALIGN: civil registration process and record vocabulary
- un-crvs - ALIGN: vital event definitions and vital statistics recommendations
requires
- vr.wm-per-002
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review
- birthRegistered: a birth was entered in the civil register and a person's civil existence began
- marriageConcluded: a marriage or partnership was concluded and registered
- unionDissolved: a divorce or dissolution was granted and registered
- deathRegistered: a death was entered in the civil register
- nameChanged: a change of legal name took effect by registration
- certificateIssued: a certificate attesting a registered event was issued
- foreignEventRecognized: an event registered abroad was recognized domestically
Legacy events listed as state transitions.
Hazards and failure modes optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Derived, awaiting review
- certificateIssuanceContract: the person's (or an entitled party's) right to obtain certificates of registered events
- statusVerificationContract: yes/no confirmation of a person's current civil status without event details
- interAgencyNotificationContract: automatic notice of registered births and deaths to entitled downstream models
- genealogyAccessContract: time-embargoed archival access to historical entries for research after protection periods lapse
- currentStatusView: the person's present civil status only; omits the events behind it
- certificateView: one event as attested, for presentation; omits the rest of the person's history
- genealogicalView: post-embargo historical entries for research; omits entries still under protection
Context of use required Filled
- Certificates, verifications and notifications are granted through the S1/S2 access and consent models, with registrar acts and disclosures audited via S4.
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Open questions
- Superseded by a researched world model? Map this legacy card to its successor or retire it.
Machine files
Provenance
legacy MMAS card (world-models v0.2) · legacy
Built from: models/world-b12-life-events-and-civil-status/spec.yaml, models/docs/society/B12-life-events-and-civil-status.md