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Crafting Structurally and Culturally Balanced Estate PlansCrafting Structurally and Culturally Balanced Estate Plans

Moving beyond the comfort zone into the stretch zone.

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Jay Hughes, Stacy Allredand 1 more

November 23, 2022

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In the September 2022 issue of Trusts & Estates, we asked readers to pause and deeply consider: Can your client’s family live in the estate plan you create?1 Are the quantitative aspects balanced with the qualitative implications?  How might the family members start to prepare themselves today to integrate the financial wealth they’ll receive in the future?

Now, we invite our community to move beyond our comfort zone into a stretch zone to further explore these questions and some practical implications.   

Bottom-Up Approach

Frequently, planners take a top-down approach to constructing an estate and gift plan focused on the wishes of the grantor, saving taxes and protecting assets. Over time, as the plan springs into action and is handed do...

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About the Authors

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.

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.

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