family continuity

The Orientation Section: How to Write the First Page of Your Family Guide

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Most family-information documents begin with the data: a list of accounts, a roster of contacts, a stack of document locations. The reader is expected to figure out what to do with the information by inference. This is the wrong way for a Family Guide to open. Imagine the moment your Family Guide is most likely … Read more

Why Estate Planning Comes Last — Not First

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Most people treat estate planning as the first thing they do about family continuity. They schedule a meeting with an attorney, answer questions they have never considered before, sign documents that reflect the best thinking they can produce in the moment, and file the results in a drawer. The questions were abstract. The process felt … Read more