Many of us have thought about how to best transfer our wealth to our heirs someday. Unfortunately, we see that parents and grandparents with significant assets often don’t spend enough time on passing along the values that helped them build, grow and maintain that wealth.

Too many successful, wealthy individuals and families are getting poor financial advice. They are simply not getting the guidance, services or products that are most appropriate to help them achieve their key financial goals.

While divorce can be overwhelming, there are ways to be proactive and take steps to maintain your financial well-being. Here are a few things to consider at key stages of the divorce process.

Many extremely wealthy individuals and families stress test their wealth plans in order to find errors in need of correcting or opportunities they’ve been overlooking. Chances are, you need a stress test even more than they do!

You can take steps right now that can potentially help you avoid watching your family’s wealth diminish over time—or stop you from being part of the problem. The key is to implement a process known as family governance. Here’s how family governance works—and how it may help your family preserve, protect and grow its assets for generations to come.

Americans—especially the affluent—are some of the most charitable people in the world. Chances are, you use some of your wealth to support favorite causes or organizations that are important to you. But those contributions may not be having as big an impact as they could—and it’s possible you’re missing out on some valuable charitable tax benefits that could help both you and your favorite charities. Here’s how to size up the effectiveness of your giving—along with some strategies that could potentially put some real power behind your philanthropy.