The Family Governance Office

The Family Governance Office provides continuity across the areas of family life that rarely sit neatly within one professional discipline.

Education. Governance. Residency. Property. The next generation.

Specialist advice remains with the appropriate regulated professionals. Our role is to maintain the wider view: the people, the priorities, the sequence and the continuity.

One family. One picture.

First, the children. The right school, then the right university, then the first years of adult life in a country their parents did not grow up in. This is where almost every family starts, and it is the most time-sensitive thing on this page.

Second, the family itself. How decisions get made when there are three children in three countries and one company that still runs through one person's phone. Family assembly, decision rights, a succession map, a continuity protocol. Boring until the week it is the only thing that matters.

Third, the ground under it. Status, banking, tax residency, and a home that works. Handled as one process, in the right order, before the arrival date rather than after it.

How it is delivered. One Club Assistant holds your file, your calendar and your timeline. The work itself is done by our corporate members — regulated firms, named partners — whom you engage directly under their own engagement letters, at rates at or below their standard rates.

What we are not. We are not a law firm, a tax practice, an immigration adviser or a healthcare provider. Where a decision is not ours to make we will tell you on the first call rather than the third.

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