Prenuptial agreements are often viewed primarily as legal documents designed to protect assets in the event of divorce. However, for families managing substantial wealth, complex ownership structures, and multigenerational enterprises, prenuptial planning can serve a broader purpose as a wealth governance tool. In this article, the authors examine how family offices can integrate prenuptial and postnuptial planning into a comprehensive governance framework that protects family wealth, reduces legal risk, and supports healthy family relationships. They explore key legal considerations, common areas of dispute, practical implementation strategies, and the role family office leaders can play in helping families navigate one of the most sensitive intersections between personal relationships and financial stewardship.

Family businesses often balance two powerful forces: the emotional bonds that sustain the enterprise and the governance structures needed to ensure long-term success. In this article, Leonardo Correa Rodríguez explores how Andrew McAfee’s concept of The Geek Way can help family enterprises professionalize decision-making, strengthen accountability, and foster constructive disagreement while preserving the values and relationships that define the family system.

How we frame family enterprise transitions matters. In this thought-provoking article, Jean Meeks-Koch argues that the language commonly used by advisors—particularly the term succession—may inadvertently create resistance among founders by signaling loss, replacement, and diminished relevance. Drawing on social constructionism, identity research, Appreciative Inquiry, and a multi-generational family enterprise case study, Meeks-Koch explores how reframing transitions as continuity and evolution can foster engagement, strengthen governance development, and create more successful outcomes for both founders and rising generations.