Beyond the Will: Why Your Wealth Needs a Strategy, Not Just a Document For most families, estate planning begins and ends with one question: "Do I have a will?" It's an understandable place to start. A will is the document most people have heard of, and it does an important job — it tells the court, in your own words, who should receive what when you're gone. But for families with significant wealth — a portfolio of properties, shares in an operating business, investments held across more than one jurisdiction, or simply more moving parts than a single page of instructions can capture — a will on its own answers only part of the question. It tells the court what you wanted. It does very little to make sure it happens smoothly, quickly, or without cost to the people you were trying to protect. What a will actually does — and doesn't do A valid will under the Law of Succession Act gives your executor the authority to apply for a grant of probate , and it sets...
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