Guernsey: Family and Matrimonial

When settlors think about protecting a vulnerable family member, whether a child prone to profligacy, an adult struggling with addiction or an elderly relative suffering cognitive decline, the instinctive response...

Taiwanese family businesses are navigating a universal challenge: how to pass value, leadership and decision-making authority to the next generation without introducing avoidable risk. Succession planning works best when it is treated as a governance and operating question (who decides what, and when), not just an asset-transfer exercise.

Family offices face rising complexity in balancing tradition with innovation, professional expertise with family values, and local structures with global footprints.

Divorce and financial remedy proceedings are frequently characterised by a lack of trust between parties.

We have all seen the newspaper articles where a divorcing spouse (or in some cases a willing family member ) is accused of 'hiding' money in an offshore trust to avoid including those funds as part...

Divorce proceedings often entail complex negotiations over assets.

For Middle Eastern family offices and family businesses, succession planning has often focused on structure: offshore holding companies, trusts and foundations designed to protect wealth, consolidate ownership and support international investment.

In the first article of this series, Middle East family office succession planning: avoiding offshore probate freezes, we explored how even well-designed ownership structures can be exposed if succession planning focuses solely on legal arrangements rather than operational continuity.

When settlors think about protecting a vulnerable family member, whether a child prone to profligacy, an adult struggling with addiction or an elderly relative suffering cognitive decline, the instinctive response...