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Family Trusts

A trust is a container for intent — it holds what you built, exactly as you meant it.

A young couple in a garden, the mother in kitenge print, father holding their baby

The promise, in one line

"The assets moved. The family never felt the mechanism."

The story

Structure is what survives you

Wealth without structure scatters at the first transition: probate freezes it, disputes divide it, and taxes take opportunistic bites.

A family trust holds assets outside the storm entirely — managed under your rules, distributing to your people, on your schedule, for generations if you design it so.

See how a family trust moves assets cleanly. See the estate structures, drawn out

The reality

What a contested transition costs

1–3 years

Without a trust, assets can sit in succession for this long — or longer

5–10%+

Estate erosion from legal and administrative costs during a contested transition

KES 200,000–1M+

What families spend in court and legal fees accessing their own inheritance

What it protects

Promises, kept in writing

Probate-proof

Trust assets never enter the succession queue — continuity is immediate.

Your rules, enforced

Ages, milestones, purposes — distributions follow your design.

Creditor insulation

Assets held in trust stand apart from personal and business liabilities.

Multi-generation reach

One structure can serve children, grandchildren and the family after them.

Who This Is For

  • Families with significant or complex assets that a will alone cannot govern
  • Business owners who want continuity enforced — not negotiated — after the founder
  • Parents who want to control how and when wealth reaches the next generation
  • Anyone building multi-generational wealth that should outlast any single transition

How We Design It

  1. 01 Define the assets to place in trust and the beneficiaries they should serve
  2. 02 Set the rules: ages, milestones or conditions that govern distributions
  3. 03 Appoint trustees who combine integrity with the capability to act over decades
  4. 04 Coordinate with the will, succession plan and governance structure for a unified estate

Protectors on Family Trusts

Families who made the promise

Our land, the flats and Baba's shares all moved in a week. The trust had been rehearsing that week for years.

Nyambura T. · Nairobi · Protector since 2023

We stopped being a family with assets and became a family with a system.

Odhiambo P. · Kisumu · Protector since 2024

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