A business is like a child. You nurture it, you praise it, scold it when it does a bad thing. Just like a child, it eventually grows up and has different needs, providing different and hopefully more bounty. We understand this implicitly and how it relates to the state in which your business exists… if only to get it to the next stage of growth. You also probably depend on the business as the lifeblood of your family and employees. So all of those benchmarks and timelines of your family heritage: birth, college, marriage, children, grandchildren, etc…. need to be carefully considered in your financial picture, especially if you have a business that is inexorably tied into the family. We do this through “LifeCycle Planning”, handling both the needs of the extended family and the business in their different stages.