Modern Families Hub
STEP Journal: Fertile grounds
Colin Rogerson, Rose-Marie Drury and Katharine Watson explore the recent case of Re AB involving surrogacy and legal parentage across borders.
Upcoming event: STEP Global Congress, 2025
STEP’s flagship thought leadership event returns for 2025 in Rome, Italy. The conference will include sessions such as ‘Unhappy modern families: Failing to plan’ discussing a case study of a complex, multi-jurisdictional modern family, exploring the status of children and whether or not they are entitled to inherit.
STEP Journal: Protecting your loved ones
Gilly Kennedy-Smith and Grace Cummings seek to identify the key issues advisors need to be aware of when drafting wills for unmarried same-sex couples in Guernsey.
Apply to join one of the Global SIG Steering Committees by 31 October 2024
The steering committees of our various SIGs are now accepting applications to fill a number of vacancies on each of the steering committees. Global applications are welcomed.
Modern families and gender identity: Gender identity in estate planning
Gender identity has become a particularly complex subject with differing views and legislative stand points across society and multiple jurisdictions. The webinar examined the cultural, generational and legal divides on the gender topic that are causing issues for the private client industry in practice.
Staying on course in turbulent times
Tim Houghton, Global Head of Private Wealth and Family Office at TMF Group, examines how the trends highlighted by TMF Group’s Global Business Complexity Index 2023 are impacting modern families.
Blended families
Fiona Higgott and Nasima Ansary outline how to prevent and combat challenges to wills for modern families in England and Wales.
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Interested in specialist modern families content? Many of our SIGs are focussing on the complex and changing nature of modern families, through the lense of their professional niche. The SIGs are free to join and you will have access to all of their member resources.
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