Family Limited Partnerships: How Family Limited Partnerships Work in Estate Planning

Families with substantial businesses, investment portfolios or real estate often face two competing estate-planning objectives: transferring wealth to the next generation while maintaining an organized system for managing the family’s assets. A Family Limited Partnership (FLP) can address that tension by separating management and control from economic ownership. Senior family members may retain management rights […]
Family Business Succession Planning: The Legal Decisions Owners Should Make Before the Next Generation Takes Over

For many family businesses, the most difficult transition is not finding someone capable of running the company. It is deciding who should legally own it, who should control it, and how that transfer should occur without creating conflict among the next generation. That is why family business succession planning should begin before a founder is […]
