{"id":181,"date":"2018-06-07T21:55:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/?p=181"},"modified":"2019-09-12T18:49:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T15:49:32","slug":"the-importance-of-a-family-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/the-importance-of-a-family-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of a Family Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead-text-basic margin-bottom-30px\"><strong>Families meet for many reasons. Birthdays. Holidays. Reunions. Special occasions or merely because they like being together. However, joining for an event specifically designated as a family meeting is less frequent. Yet, it is one of the most important gatherings a family can have.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>Why?<\/h6>\n<p class=\"margin-bottom-40px\">Fans of the television show <em>Blue Bloods<\/em> enjoy watching the multi-generational family dinners. The fictional Reagans also hold family meetings when important issues pop up. We believe family meetings should be scheduled <strong>before<\/strong> there are issues and while all generations are still active. HFA recently held a Lunch &amp; Learn seminar on this subject, which was a big success. Some of our guests have already scheduled family meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"margin-bottom-15px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-104 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/post-family.jpg\" alt=\"Family\" width=\"900\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/post-family.jpg 900w, https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/post-family-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/post-family-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/post-family-540x324.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A family meeting should be designed to map out what you want to happen in the future. Possible reasons for a family meeting include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promote Stewardship, which is the responsible oversight and protection of something worth caring for and preserving.<\/li>\n<li>Share values as well as estate and financial plans.<\/li>\n<li>Embrace the challenge to discuss thoughtful planning and its impact on family members.<\/li>\n<li>Perpetuate a family legacy.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss multi-generational planning.<\/li>\n<li>Judiciously communicate details when all generations are still living.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare heirs for future roles and responsibilities.<\/li>\n<li>Establish a forum for collaborative decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Educate heirs on financial literacy or estate planning.<\/li>\n<li>Create an atmosphere of trust.<\/li>\n<li>Open lines of communication that may have closed.<\/li>\n<li>Establish family leadership roles and responsibilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families meet for many reasons. Birthdays. Holidays. Reunions. Special occasions or merely because they like being together. However, joining for an event specifically designated as a family meeting is less frequent. Yet, it is one of the most important gatherings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[12,13,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-merald.com\/themes\/benchmark-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}