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Couples nearing marriage often confront challenging questions and must make difficult decisions around complex, emotionally charged issues. Somewhere in the process of sorting out financial and estate planning decisions, the question on whether to have a prenuptial agreement may emerge. Here are steps that you and your families may find helpful in making the prenup experience more successful, and potentially avoid some fatal flaws.

While access to the privileges of wealth is a blessing in most instances, it can provide additional challenges in raising appreciative and self-sufficient children. As a parent, you play an integral role in helping your children learn self-sufficiency and financial literacy. If you want your children to obtain the financial skills and experience to manage their own money now and, eventually, the wealth they’ll inherit, they’ll need to learn a couple of key concepts and financial basics.

Finding a way to facilitate trust, communication, and proper preparation and development of the necessary skill sets of the next generation can be difficult and will vary from family to family. Today, many families are finding answers to these questions through a private family foundation. If you’re thinking about staring a family foundation, here are considerations to help guide the setup, as well as potential benefits for your family and the long-term preservation of your family’s wealth.

In this episode, Amy Hart Clyne and Jay Hughes look past the legal trappings that come with beneficiaries and trustees to unpack the human side to these roles and discuss why so many young people see their trusts as a burden. Amy also reveals key insights from her ongoing conversations with young female family leaders.

The old proverb “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations” illustrating the challenge facing multigenerational families is well-known. It’s been used throughout history, and cultures around the world have similar phrases describing how wealthy families struggle to endure. In this segment, Amy Hart Clyne and Jay Hughes discuss what gives this phrase its staying power, and Jay brings the concept to life with an example we can all recognize from our own families.

What makes a family? We’ve all experienced close bonds with people who don’t necessarily share our DNA. Amy Hart Clyne and Jay Hughes unpack family dynamics through the lens of “affinity” and why that concept is vital to avoiding the “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations” proverb.

The word “wealth” has a complex and illuminating etymology. Amy Hart Clyne and Jay Hughes break down the definition of wealth, and Jay reveals key insights around his work defining the five capitals of wealth. He details why financial capital may in fact be the least important to long-term family success.

Water damage is one of the biggest challenges for property managers. Improving plumbing infrastructure and creating a risk mitigation plan can be the difference between sinking or swimming until your next insurance renewal. Learn the five ways to minimize your risk and the cost of water damage. Every preparation you take to combat future water damage will provide coverage opportunities in the present.

Determining a tax-exempt strategy in a changing municipal landscape requires careful planning for investors to reduce risk and overcome other challenges such as limited access to bonds and volatile interest rates. Learn the reasons behind why it’s important for investors to examine their tax-exempt allocations and see how a professionally managed laddered approach to municipal bonds provides structure that can reduce risk and combat rising interest rates.

Lawmakers have passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) to help in the ongoing fight against fraud, corruption, terrorism financing, and money laundering. The CTA contains significant new federal reporting obligations, and it may have an especially onerous impact on estate planning for those who accomplish their planning goals through the use of one or more business entities.