Beyond the Will: Why Conventional Wealth Transfer Is Breaking Down—and How America's Most Sophisticated Families Are Rebuilding the Entire Inheritance Model
Traditional succession planning—built on legal instruments, tax efficiency, and the assumption that wealth can be transferred as reliably as property—is quietly failing America's most affluent families at an alarming rate. The breakdowns are rarely financial in origin; they are psychological, structural, and deeply human. A new generation of advisors and forward-thinking family principals are responding by dismantling the conventional handoff model entirely and replacing it with something far mo