Version Lifecycle Governance

Versions are usually managed at the point of creation and neglected afterwards, which is why estates accumulate superseded material indefinitely. Each version has a lifecycle of its own — it becomes current, is displaced, and should eventually be dispositioned on a schedule that may differ from the document's overall retention. Treating versions as permanent by default is how a ten-year-old estate holds forty copies of a policy with four words different between them.

Because disposition in Centralpoint operates on records with their version lineage rather than on files, retiring superseded versions is a governed action with evidence rather than a cleanup exercise. Index membership follows the same lifecycle, so a dispositioned version leaves the retrieval surface at the same moment it leaves the estate.