Tagged: family

Keeping the Extended Family Connected

How is it that some families manage to hang together – for several generations – when others fly apart as soon as the kids are grown? Is there a special ingredient, some magic that...

Family Culture Factors Affecting Long Term Wealth

Family culture encompasses your family’s history, traditions, values, views, habits, goals, communication methods, and experiences. Your culture can affect whether or not future generations will have access to the wealth you are now building...

Review of: Family Fortunes

Family fortunes:  How to Build Family Wealth and Hold on to It for 100 Years by Bill and Will Bonner copyright 2012, published by John Wiley and Sons Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey   Summary:...

Avoiding the High Cost of Senior Divorces

Many things change as we mature, including our relationships. You and your spouse may have shared years together, raising family, building your nest egg, and sharing experiences – some good, some bad.  You have...

Alone and Loving It!

One of my fears when I joined my husband in retirement is that we would be together way too much. Don’t get me wrong, togetherness in a married couple is a good thing, but...

How to Re-charge Your Annual Family Meeting

If you have family meetings between the various generations and family units every year, you may find that family members lose interest in those meetings over time. We’ve had meetings for the past four...

Starting a Family Business

If you and your spouse are thinking about starting up a website together; or if you and your grown children are wanting to work together to buy and manage real estate; or, in fact,...