A book by Michal Hanych · November 2026

From Father to Nothing

Inheriting six companies, five co-owners, and no plan. What I learned in the years that followed.

From Father to Nothing, Michal Hanych Late 2026

"Wealth grew faster than the family
could mature around it."

The book

When the Iron Curtain fell, my father built six companies. When he died unexpectedly, I inherited them all. Five co-owners. No will. No map for any of it.

This book is about the years that followed. The legal mess, the family conversations we hadn't had, the slow rebuilding of something I never asked to inherit. It is not a how-to book on succession. It 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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From Father to Nothing Cards

Forty prompts for the conversations families don't have. Print at home. Sit at a table. Pick a card you don't want to answer. Start there.

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Reading from the book

One excerpt every month · June through November.

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Pre-orders

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About

Michal Hanych is an attorney, tax advisor, and family-office founder based in Prague. He inherited the six-company estate this book describes when his father died unexpectedly in 2019, 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 late 2026.

Michal advises a small number of Central European families through Complicated in Prague.