Your family gains written rules — before death or a quarrel writes them for you.

• Who owns what, who takes the decisions and how the next generation enters is known in words but written down nowhere.
• There is more than one branch in the family, or more than one claimant to the business, and the joints between them rest on personal relations rather than rules.
• Decisions about the capital still rest on one person, and the family has no place where they are made together.

What the House does

The House leads the family from spoken understandings to a written instrument and to a working practice that applies it. The constitution answers who owns, who decides, how an heir enters and how a dispute is settled; governance answers where, how often and in what order the family decides about its capital. Then the House binds both to the holding and the foundations, so what is written carries legal force. The legal instruments are drafted by licensed counsel, instructed and signed off by the House on your behalf.

• A family charter: ownership, voting rights, entry of the next generation, exit from the business, dispute resolution — in one document.
• A family council: composition, powers, the rhythm of its sittings and the order in which decisions are taken.
• Roles and a rhythm of reporting: who answers for what, and how regularly the family sees the state of its capital.
• Converting the constitution into the legal structure — the holding, the foundation, the shareholders’ agreements — so the rules are enforced rather than left a declaration.
• A procedure for revising the constitution itself on a change of generation, of composition or of law.

What you get: a family charter (written constitution) · the rules of the family council · a map of roles and a rhythm of reporting · a binding of the constitution to the holding and the foundation

What worries you — and the House’s answer

• “Paper won’t stop a family quarrel.” — On its own, no; which is why the constitution is bound to the structure and the council, which have both an order of application and legal force.
• “This will tie our hands for the future.” — A procedure for its own revision is built into the charter, so the rules change deliberately rather than break at the first collision with reality.
• “Once we begin, the family will fall out over the very discussion.” — The House conducts the process as a neutral party and records what is agreed, rather than leaving the family to argue alone.

Where this leads

The family gains the written law of its own house and a working way of applying it: it is clear who owns, who decides, how the next generation enters and how a dispute is settled. And when the one who held it all in his head is gone, the family receives not a vacuum and not improvisation, but an order that goes on working without him.