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Most family offices plan for investment risk, operational risk, and succession risk. Few plan formally for the risk sitting closest to home: family conflict. It is a near-universal feature of multigenerational wealth, and yet the governance mechanisms to address it are among the rarest in family office practice. Wealthy families best at handling conflict have usually created conditions that make disputes less likely to start in the first place.
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