Published by jurisdiction planners

Journal for Jurisdiction Planning

Jurisdiction planning is the discipline of managing affairs that span several jurisdictions: the legal obligations each one imposes, and the entitlements each one offers. The Journal documents the discipline for families and companies with cross-border affairs, and for the advisors who serve them.

The need grows with the globalised economy. A family or a company now carries obligations in several jurisdictions at once, in tax, reporting, residence, and succession, and the rules change every year. The Journal publishes the principles, instruments, and methods for navigating them as one system.

Publications

Standing instrument · Interactive · Version 2.0

Jurisdiction Planning Risk Index

118 countries scored on four questions: could this place slide into war, economic collapse, political closure, or demographic decline? Search it, sort it, click any country for its full scores.

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Principles · No. 1

Jurisdiction Planning: The Discipline

What jurisdiction planning is, and how a diagnosis is built: the laws that reach a family or a company, the channels they travel, and the verdict on each.

Principles · No. 2

The Sovereign Family

What all this work is for. Six ways a state can hold a family in place, and what a family looks like when none of the six can hold it.

Founding statement · 2026

A Journal Seeking to Become an Association

Why the Journal exists, who pays for it, and what it will take to get there.

All publications, including the standing instruments of other publishers.

In preparation: Dossier No. 1, The Fiscal Siege: Brazil (English edition of O Cerco Fiscal) · country-by-country maps of the laws that reach families, beginning with Brazil · briefings on bills and windows in motion · Principles No. 3, The Sovereign Company.

Why this journal exists

Publications in this field come from providers: programme sellers document their programmes, banks their products, law firms the structures they build. The Journal covers the field from the other end, for the person or company that has to put the pieces together. Who publishes it, who funds it, and what it intends to become are declared in the founding statement.