A book by Michal Hanych · November 2026

From Father to Nothing

I spent years advising the wealthiest Czechs on tax and the law. Then I inherited six companies, four co-owners, and no plan. This is what I learned.

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From Father to Nothing, Michal Hanych November 2026

"What is the money for?
Nobody had ever asked."

The book

My father built six companies in the years after the Iron Curtain fell. By then I had founded a Czech advisory group, smpl.cz, helping families with wealth like ours. He died unexpectedly. I inherited the companies: four co-owners, no will, no map. I went looking for principles. What to do with the companies. With the family. With myself.

The legal mess was the easy part. That part has deadlines, paperwork, and people you can hire.

It was never really about the money. The harder problem was what no one in the family had ever said out loud. About each other. About who we became when the person holding it all together was suddenly gone.

This is what I would have wanted to read the week after the funeral. Most writing on family wealth comes from the advisor's side of the table. This comes from the other side.

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The Complicated Conversation

Thirty-two prompts for the conversations families don't have. The book lands in November. Until then, the cards. Read three free on your phone, unlock the rest with your email, print at home and sit at a table.

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Michal Hanych

About

Michal Hanych is an attorney, tax advisor, and founder of the Complicated family office, based in Prague. He inherited the six-company estate this book describes when his father died unexpectedly in 2024, and has spent the years since rebuilding around it.

The Czech edition, Nepřipravené předání podnikání mezi generacemi, was published in 2025. This expanded English edition follows in November 2026.

Michal has spent years advising the wealthiest individuals in Czechia on legal and tax matters as the founding partner of smpl_. Personal matters, he learned, are always different. He calls the work he does now The Complicated Conversation.