Trusts. Control assets after death, and avoid the court.
It is a financial instrument.
It exists to relieve Decide what to leave and to whom, To qualify for help you must first lose everything, Probate is slow, public, and expensive and The house must be emptied and sold, or lived in. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Probate and inheritance law. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
Solving that problem created new ones: Estate vehicles are complex enough to need permanent professionals. Follow those and you find the next generation of products built on top of this one.
2 organisations in this map sell it, 1 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionTrusts
- FrictionDecide what to leave and to whom
- Life phaseLate career
- Rooted inBelonging
- Rooted inMortality
Relieves
Created these new problems
Second-order frictions. This is where most of the modern economy actually lives.
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| UBS | $110B | public · UBSG | wealth management, Credit Suisse integration |
| Trust & Will | private | online wills, trusts, guardianship nomination |