The Custody Map

Where your assets are held is a chokepoint you occupy, and it is not the same as where you pay tax. Tax residence decides what you owe. Custody jurisdiction decides who can freeze what you own, on whose authority, and how fast, whatever your passport says. This is the ledger of what has been frozen, the rails that hold and move the world's money, and the gradient from most reachable to least.

The freeze ledger

Every major freeze of state or private wealth in this century, with the amount, the date, where it is held, and where it stands. Click any row for the full account.

No.	Party	Amount	Since	Status

The rails

The infrastructure that actually holds and moves the world's money. Each is a place someone can be told to stop.

The exposure gradient

From most reachable to least. This is an analytic frame, not advice, and each rung trades one risk for another.

Why it matters

A family can hold the right passport, live in the right country, and still keep its wealth where a single foreign vote or a single US instruction can freeze it. Custody is the visibility pressure point of The Sovereign Family, made concrete: not where a treasury can see your wealth, but where a court or a council can reach it. The Risk Index scores the country you live in; this map reads the jurisdictions your money lives in, which are often not the same.

Cite this publication

Journal for Jurisdiction Planning (2026). The Custody Map, v1.0. jurisdictionplanning.org/custody. Last reviewed 20 July 2026.