FAQ
This page addresses the most common questions firms and advisers raise when assessing whether Pullariani is relevant to a matter involving digital assets, succession, incapacity, or probate-sensitive execution.
The purpose is not to replace a full briefing, but to clarify the operational logic, role boundaries, and practical issues that often arise early.
Introduction
Early questions, answered clearly.
Digital asset estate planning often appears simple until technical execution is examined closely. These questions reflect the practical issues that usually arise when a law firm, family office, or fiduciary adviser first evaluates the matter properly.
Clarifications
A seed phrase is not merely information — it is direct control over the asset. Writing it into a will, or storing it in a form that becomes widely visible or insufficiently controlled, can create serious operational and fiduciary exposure. A legal document may assign authority, but it should not casually expose the credentials that make the asset spendable.
Digital assets held through hardware wallets, seed phrases, or non-custodial structures are controlled by cryptographic credentials, not by legal status. A valid will, grant of probate, or power of attorney may establish legal authority, but it does not by itself unlock the assets or make the recovery path operational.
Full technical control can turn the firm into the single operational point of failure and create an exposure many private-client practices do not want on their balance sheet. Pullariani’s role is to help design a non-custodial structure where the legal team retains legal authority and matter control without being pushed into unnecessary unilateral custody risk.
Pullariani acts as the technical-estate implementation layer behind the matter. It helps design the structure, guide onboarding, document the recovery path, prepare matter-specific materials such as the Probate-Ready Technical Inventory and Executor Runbook, and support continuity or execution events where required. It does not replace legal advice and does not hold client assets.
The answer depends on the matter structure, but the objective is consistent: legal authority must be matched by a documented technical path that an authorised party can actually follow. That is why Pullariani prepares structured materials and role boundaries in advance, rather than leaving the operational path to be improvised at the most difficult moment.
The technical-estate layer should never depend entirely on informal memory or a single individual. Pullariani’s approach includes continuity thinking, documented materials, and structured matter instruments intended to remain usable by authorised parties and successor professionals if personnel or implementation circumstances change.
A matter is usually more standard where it involves one clear legal team, a single jurisdiction, standard governance assumptions, and no unusual trust or multi-party execution structure. It becomes bespoke when cross-border issues, trust arrangements, custom signing logic, multi-branch succession paths, or greater continuity sensitivity appear.
In practical terms, multisig means the control structure is intentionally divided so that no single person or device carries the entire burden of access and recovery. The purpose is not complexity for its own sake, but a more resilient and reviewable structure for succession-sensitive matters.
No. Pullariani is a non-custodial technical-estate implementation practice. Its role is to design, document, and support the technical layer behind the matter — not to become the holder of client assets or a discretionary financial intermediary.
No, but the relevance increases where the consequences of operational failure become serious. The more value, complexity, family sensitivity, or continuity pressure a matter carries, the more important it becomes to ensure that legal authority is matched by a workable technical path.
No. Some matters can follow a relatively standard structure. Others become bespoke because of trust arrangements, family-office involvement, cross-border execution issues, multi-party succession logic, or continuity requirements. Part of Pullariani’s role is to identify that difference early.
Family offices often care not only about current control, but also about continuity, governance, privacy, and intergenerational transfer. Digital assets can become fragile at precisely the point where long-term planning matters most — unless the technical layer has been designed properly.
The legal team’s expertise lies in legal structuring, fiduciary judgment, and client advisory work — not necessarily in building and documenting the technical recovery architecture behind non-custodial digital assets. Pullariani exists to fill that gap without displacing the law firm’s role.
Usually yes, though the answer depends on the matter structure. Pullariani is designed to sit behind the legal matter as the technical-estate layer, so the question is not whether a legal plan exists, but whether that plan is operationally matched by a documented technical path.
No. Pullariani provides technical-estate implementation services. It does not provide legal advice, tax advice, discretionary investment services, or retail wallet support.
Clarification
This FAQ is designed to clarify common questions early. It does not replace a briefing discussion, live matter scoping, or professional legal and tax advice.
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