Family Culture

Estate planning for clients who have blended or stepfamilies often presents significant and perplexing challenges for estate planners in the substantive planning. As if that was not difficult enough, estate planners may also encounter…

The key to a family’s success is family education and trust building through an organized and prioritized family meeting process.

Parents' desire to control the way their child spends his inheritance is not new, and the resulting complications of this endeavor are evidenced throughout literature and history. A popular Bible story, that of Cain and his brother Abel,…

Closely-held businesses have been the backbone of job growth in this country, and it may well be that virtually all the net job growth during recent history was attributable to owner-operated businesses.