Family preparedness
Family preparedness guides
4 guides on this subject.
Most adults have no will: the estate-planning gap, country by country
Surveys across the US, UK, Canada and Australia find most adults have no will: the same gap, the same reasons, a real cost to families.
5 min read · updated 2026-09-06
Your bank nominee probably isn't your legal heir, and in India that catches families out
In India a bank, demat or insurance nominee often holds the money as a trustee for the legal heirs rather than owning it outright.
4 min read · updated 2026-09-06
A will names who inherits. It rarely says how to find anything.
A will decides who gets what. It seldom records where your accounts are or how to reach them — the gap that turns weeks into months for a family.
2 min read · updated 2026-09-06
The first 48 hours: what a family needs to find
What people are actually looking for in the days after a death, and how to make it findable in advance.
2 min read · updated 2026-08-21