There is a temptation, when wealth grows quickly, to assemble structures quickly. A trust here. A holding company there. A foundation, eventually.
The structures themselves are rarely the problem. The sequence is.
Architects know that the order of construction is itself a form of design. Foundation, frame, envelope, interior. Reverse the order and the building is unrecoverable.
Family wealth obeys the same physics. The Drafting Room exists to determine the sequence — not just the inventory. Which decisions must precede which conversations. Which jurisdictions must be settled before which instruments are drawn. Which family members must be heard before which structures are signed.
A principal who built his estate over twenty years described his Legatus™ engagement in one sentence: 'For the first time, someone drew it before they sold it.'
Composure, in this context, is the discipline of sequence. Not the absence of action — the right action, in the right order, at the right time.
Most expensive estate-planning mistakes are not mistakes of instrument. They are mistakes of order.
If your family architecture has been built faster than it has been drawn, the Drafting Room is where the drawing begins. Legatus™ engagements are by invitation, in writing.
