Fame, Fortune and the Family Office: A Guide to Managing Family Wealth

Some people wake up one day and realize that they are wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.    

Maybe the person hit the lottery.  Maybe the person worked hard for twenty years and became an overnight success.  Maybe the person worked surely and steadily over a long period of time to build a business and financial empire and suddenly found, one day, that it was bigger than any one person could handle. And just maybe the person attended all of Jay Darby's Tax Briefings and made better decisions.     

The point is you now have a life filled with success, wealth, property -- and all the related management demands and headaches that entails. What should you do next?    

One possibility is to bring the management of these diverse business, financial and tax matters into your own family office.  A (tongue in cheek) observation inspired by the movie “The Godfather” would…