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In popular culture, questions of inheritance tackle dramatic, typically nasty proportions. Watching Succession, you’d be forgiven for pondering that in all rich households, the specter of demise elicits insults, infighting, and betrayal. For some households—even these with out the wealth that the Roys are arguing over—that might be true. However for others, deciding what to go away behind is a method to take stock of a life nicely lived. It will also be a chance to codify our connections with those we love, whether or not or not they fall underneath the normal definition of household.
What to Go away Behind
How A lot Inheritance Is Too A lot?
By Joe Pinsker
Some rich mother and father are involved that after a sure level, cash handed down will probably be damaging to the subsequent technology.
The Downside With Wills
By Michael Waters
A hanging proportion of Individuals doesn’t have one. Nontraditional households are left uniquely weak.
Classes From Succession for Non-billionaire Households
By Chris Ip
For one enterprise professor, the present is a cautionary story.
Nonetheless Curious?
Different Diversions
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