Thank you to Kent Choi, Hamza Nidaazzi, and Guillermo Salazar of the Systems Thinking VSG for this week’s edition, which explores how trusted advisors can recognize when long-term relationships begin to foster dependency.

What happens when three legal systems lay claim to one family’s legacy?

What happens when a family’s financial success outpaces its emotional connection?

Thank you to Jon Martinez for this week’s edition, which examines a leadership role that family enterprises may overlook: the chief governance officer.

Most family enterprise boards perform exactly the job they were designed to do.

Family enterprise disputes often combine legal and financial questions with deeply personal concerns involving fairness, identity, legacy, and belonging.

Inherited wealth can create extraordinary opportunity, but it can also raise difficult questions about identity, purpose, relationships, and belonging.

Family enterprise advisors regularly encounter legal issues that are easy to overlook because they are embedded in family relationships, informal practices, and expectations about the future.

In this week’s edition of FFI Practitioner, William Kambas of Withers and Amy Szostak of Northern Trust explore how estate-planning structures can help prepare rising-generation family members to understand, participate in, and eventually steward shared assets.