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The path to riches usually starts with a family business. To use private-banker jargon, the Patriarch founds the company (they never say Matriarch) and then passes it to the Next Generation and then maybe to “Gen 3.” Inevitably, the family members start fighting and the business goes under or is sold for a Liquidity Event. [...]

As a 10-year-old boy, Matt Horsfield understood much of what was unfolding around him when his father, Pat, decided to start a construction business.
Now, as an adult and president of his father’s firm, Horsfield Companies, Matt Horsfield said he realizes how substantial his father’s undertaking was.
“Essentially, he gave up everything and sacrificed everything,” he said.
All [...]

Open communication and the ability to separate the different expectations of home and work are the keys to a successful father-child business relationship, experts say.
There are few neutral opinions when it comes to the father-child dynamic in family-owned businesses, said Wayne Rivers, the president of the Family Business Institute in Raleigh.
“That’s why the lows can [...]

College has been a family affair for the Trefethen family of Hampton. Later this month, Tracy, 30, will graduate from Great Bay Community College alongside her mother, Pat, and father, Don. All three will receive a certificate in Digital Design and Animation.
It all started when Don retired from the Army after 30 years in 2006. [...]

Rosa Muoz took her children Giselle, 10, and Anthony, 5, to the circus Saturday to celebrate with them “Children’s Day.” Like the Mu?ozes, several east Salinas families attended the annual event.
“They wanted to see the ponies,” Mu?oz said of her children.
She displayed enthusiasm in every part of the show. She cheered for Pinky the clown [...]

Family Holidays have three children. My will and my living trust state that everything goes to them. My son recently told me that he and his wife of eight years are separating. They are not getting a divorce. Is she entitled to half of my son’s inheritance when I pass away? My stocks and money [...]

After 75 years of separation, Chester Wasiuk and Isabelle Metty’s broken family circle is complete again.”Oh, wow. This is my sister,” Wasiuk, 78, said softly as Metty walked up the driveway of their brother’s Grandville home on a recent morning.
“You’re my brother!” Metty said as they hugged, ending a separation that began in 1932, when [...]

Michelle and David Huck know well the promise and peril of adopting from Africa.The Calgary couple’s first attempt began smoothly: A Canadian adoption agency newly licensed to work in Sierra Leone matched them with orphaned siblings - Amie, 3, and her one-year-old brother, Sorie. For a year, the Hucks filled out paperwork, prepared a bedroom [...]

Finally I can sense that spring is truly arriving and I can celebrate having “lived” through an Ontario winter after spending 18 years on the west coast. Of course, with the warmer weather and the beautiful sunshine, the urge to get the barbecue out and invite the family over for an old-fashioned intergenerational gathering is [...]

“Three Girls and Their Brother” (Shaye Areheart Books)
by Theresa Rebeck
In her first novel, playwright and screenwriter Theresa Rebeck skewers paparazzi culture and our national obsession with the hookups and breakdowns of the young and the beautiful.
In “Three Girls and Their Brother,” three gorgeous redheads are thrown into the celebrity machine when a famous photographer takes [...]