High Net Worth (“HNW”) and Ultra-High Net Worth (“UHNW”) families often form family offices to address three priorities: privacy, control, and continuity. Lawyers and advisors to such families know that these goals cannot be achieved with sophisticated structures alone. Indeed, the legal structure is just one part of the equation. The real work, and the real risk, lies in aligning the decisions of the people operating and impacted by the structures with those priorities.