Adoption, Surrogacy, and IVF: How the Wealthy Build Families
Fertility money doesn’t buy a better baby — it buys more attempts. Inside IVF, egg freezing, and surrogacy for the wealthy, and what each really costs.
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Dynasties: Families That Turn Wealth Into Power
Most fortunes vanish within three generations. The families that don’t — Waltons, Rockefellers, Murdochs — built machinery to turn money into lasting power.
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Boarding School: Elite Education Away From Home
Top boarding schools cost $70,000 a year in the US and over $200,000 in Switzerland. Here’s who actually goes, what it really buys, and what families get wrong.
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Legacy: Inheritance, Heirs, and Family Continuity
About 90% of family wealth is gone by the third generation. Inside the trusts, governance, and heir prep that separate the dynasties that last from those that don’t.
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Inheritance: The Transfer of Wealth Between Generations
How wealth actually moves between generations in 2026 — the $15M exemption, the step-up in basis, lifetime gifts, dynasty trusts, and the talk-to-the-heirs problem.
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Divorce: What Happens When Wealth Splits
About 49% of billionaire marriages end in divorce. What that statistic hides — and why MacKenzie Scott took 25% of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon stake, not the 50% Washington law would have allowed.
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Marriage and Prenups: Romance, Power, and Protection
About 80% of $1M+ households sign a prenup, vs. ~15–20% of the general public. What that contract actually does — and the two things doing more work behind it.
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College Admissions: How Wealth Expands the Playing Field
Operation Varsity Blues closed the criminal back door to top-tier college admissions. The legal version — bigger, quieter, and post-SFFA still intact — did not move.
