About Us

Building calmer, clearer inheritance planning for families across the country.

What We Do

Forward Inheritance is a California-based fintech company launched by seasoned professionals with backgrounds in finance, insurance, and software development. We help families navigate inheritance and legacy planning by offering tools, guidance, and financial solutions that make generational wealth transfer clearer and more collaborative. We focus on education, communication, and proactive planning to reduce conflict and help families make informed decisions about their financial futures.

Who We Serve

We serve families who want to get ahead of the conversation — before inheritance becomes a crisis. Whether you're a parent thinking about how to communicate your wishes, an adult child trying to understand what comes next, or a blended family navigating complexity across generations, Forward meets you where you are with secure, accessible solutions.

Why We Do It

Inheritance planning represents one of the most emotionally charged topics a family will ever face — tied to relationships, expectations, and the legacies families spend a lifetime building. Because it's such a daunting task, many families put it off, and risk being wholly unprepared when a death in the family happens. The result is too often confusion and conflict among family members right when they need each other most.

Our goal is to help you understand the financial, emotional, and practical realities of inheritance so that when the moment arrives, your family is informed, aligned, and ready.

Meet the Forward Founding Team

A message from the CEO

“We started Forward Inheritance to help families. I needed this type of solution, for my children, and for my father and sisters with his estate. We needed a secure system that stores our critical legal documents, shares it appropriately within the family, and gives visibility to the professionals who help us. Since it didn't exist, we built it and have been using it to ensure transparency, accountability, and peace of mind. Partnering with wealth managers, tax accountants, and estate attorneys allows those role-specific systems to be complex while the FAM (Forward Asset Management) Inheritance Portal gives the holistic family estate view to all involved. What we built for ourselves has grown into a solution that we believe helps all American families.”

Bryan Walley, CEO — LinkedIn

Bryan Walley, Chief Executive Officer

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