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Can Your Client’s Family Live In the Estate Plan You Create?Can Your Client’s Family Live In the Estate Plan You Create?

Integrating financial capital requires a holistic perspective.

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Stacy Allred, Mary K. Dukeand 1 more

August 29, 2022

9 Min Read
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In today’s uncertain environment, one of the most powerful ways to gain insight to make more effective decisions is finding ways to “bring the future to the present.”1 Engaged in an intimate gathering with two dozen founders of family-owned businesses, a courageous third generation inheritor, let’s call her Rosie,2 was offering that opportunity. An introvert with a strong preference for privacy, what would have motivated her to move from comfort to courage and share her story? The answer turns out to be her desire to help others avoid the years of turmoil she experienced in receiving an inheritance.

Creating significant economic success, Rosie’s grandparents worked closely with their team of advisors—attorneys, accountants and financial p...

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About the Authors

Stacy Allred

First Republic

Stacy Allred leads the Family Engagement and Governance group at First Republic and is based in Bellevue, Wash.

Mary K. Duke

Founder, High Road Advisors

Mary K. Duke is founder of High Road Advisors in Greenwich, Conn.

Jay Hughes

 retired attorney, Jay is the author of Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family and Family – The Compact Among Generations and co-author of The Cycle of the GiftThe Voice of the Rising Generation, and Family Trusts: a Guide for Beneficiaries, Trustees, Trust Protectors and Trust Creators. Jay has also written numerous articles on family governance and wealth preservation as well as a series of Reflections

Jay was the founder of a law partnership in New York City. He speaks frequently at numerous international and domestic symposia on the avoidance of the "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves" proverb and the growth of families' human, intellectual, social and financial capitals toward their families’ flourishing.  He is a member of various philanthropic boards and a member of the editorial boards of various professional journals.

Jay is a graduate of the Far Brook School, which teaches through the arts, The Pingry School, Princeton University, and The Columbia School of Law.