Life is Short, Art is Long is a must-read for advisors who work with art and antique collectors and the nonprofit organizations they support. Michael Mendelsohn’s ingenious strategies decrease federal tax liability, build charitable assets, and improve wealth transfer between generations. He gives us distinct answers for collectors who want to liquidate cash for retirement, avoid the loss of value due to a badly executed auction sale, or establish an equitable distribution plan for their children.

LIfe is Short, Art is Long is the book all advisors who plan to manage art, antiques and collectibles must read.

Sometimes, even with detailed planning and the best of intentions, our lives happen differently than we think they will. In Best Intentions, Colleen Barney and Victoria Collins write about the significance of estate planning and present us with stories and letters from and regarding real people who, despite careful planning, did not pass on to their families and loved ones what they meant to-their wisdom on life, messages, and, inheritances.

The readers learn the impact of estate planning and why it is so important to be done well and to be done right through stories, anecdotes, and more.

The key to creating great family enterprises is possessing the skill to cultivate new generations who are well primed for and enthusiastic to face the enterprises future challenges. Based on interviews with more than 70 families, Releasing the Potential of the Rising Generations presents us with rare, experience-based understandings of thriving developments of family enterprises over at least three generations.

In Prenups for Lovers: A Romantic Guide to Prenuptial Agreements, family-law attorney Arlene G. Dubin tells us how prenuptial agreements encourage communication and compromise, and make room for better prospects within one’s marriage. In addition to showing us why signing a prenuptial agreement before marriage is important and a great thing, Arlene Dubin provides for us an intelligent and entertaining handbook for negotiating an agreement, including: how to broach the subject of prenups, how to respond if your partner brings the subject up with you, checklists you should go through before you do get married, and even advice for married couples!

Engaged Ownership: A Guide for Owners of Family Businesses, is hands down the best owner's guide to the family enterprise. If you're taking over a family business, family office, or trust, Engaged Ownership tells you how to work effectively with the management and board to keep the enterprise going in the right direction. Uniquely written from the perspective of an owner, anyone who needs family enterprise guidance should read this book.

Deconstructing Conflict was written based upon almost fifteen years of Doug Baumoel and Blair Trippe’s experience helping families manage and own their own enterprises together. “The Conflict Equation” shows us five basic ideas to help us understand conflict in its underlying parts. Deconstructing Conflict will allow you to recognize the reasons behind all conflict, what causes conflict to begin with, and why conflict can be so severe and recalcitrant in family business.