Estate planning, as it is commonly practiced, is a vase discipline. One instrument, displayed prominently. Then another. Then a third. Each in its own container.
The result is technically tidy and functionally fragile. A vase tipped over loses everything. A composition has internal balance.
The Drafting Room treats family wealth as a composition, not a collection. Each instrument is placed in relation to the others. The trust speaks to the holding company. The holding company speaks to the foundation. The Sealed Memo™ speaks to the next generation.
When one element shifts — a child marries, a jurisdiction changes, a business is sold — the others adjust without collapse. That is composition.
One principal described his redesign as 'going from seven separate problems to one connected system.'
Composure, in architecture, is the property of structures that move together. Vases do not move together. Bowls do.
If your family architecture has been assembled vase by vase, Legatus™ recomposes it as a single bowl. By invitation, in writing.
