Soult Blog
Guides for Modern Indian Families
on Legacy & Estate Planning
Practical advice on digital legacy, estate planning, financial organisation, and preserving family memories.
₹1.84 lakh crore is lying unclaimed. Most of it, because nobody left a trail.
Banks and insurers in India are holding over ₹1.84 lakh crore that no family has claimed — often because the people who saved it never left a map. Here's how to make sure your money never becomes a statistic.
The blank column that cost a family ₹10 lakh
A single unfilled field on an old insurance form. A spelling that didn't match. Small gaps in your records can cost your family lakhs of rupees — and years of waiting. Here's how to close them.
With a nominee, the bank has 15 days. Without one, families wait years.
The single biggest difference between a smooth handover and a years-long ordeal often comes down to one thing: whether a nominee was named. Here's why it matters so much — and how to get it right.
“I don't even know the ways around.” The conversation families keep postponing.
Too often, one person in the family knows where everything is — and everyone else is left in the dark. The most important legacy step costs nothing: a conversation, had in time.
Thirteen years of guessing: why your medical wishes need to be written down
When you can't speak for yourself, someone you love has to decide for you — often with no idea what you'd have wanted. Writing your wishes down is a gift of clarity in the hardest moment.
Two of every three civil cases in India are property fights. Here's how families avoid becoming one.
Millions of property disputes are clogging India's courts — many between people who were once family. Most of them trace back to the same root cause, and it's preventable.
