Muthomi Mutiga & Co
Practice · Late lifecycle of the Arc

Succession & Estate Planning

For the principal who knows what intestate succession costs a family. We make sure the value you built survives your departure, intact and undisputed, and passes to the people you intend on the terms you set.

Who we act for Families, business principals, and high-net-worth individuals planning the transfer of land, businesses, and wealth across generations. Based in Nairobi, acting across Kenya. Book a consultation →
What we do
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Family Trusts

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Registered and unregistered trusts under the Trustees (Perpetual Succession) Act, structured so wealth exists independently of the person who built it.

  • Trust deeds
  • Cap. 164 registration
  • Protector clauses
  • Asset transfer
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Wills & Probate

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Valid, contest-resistant wills, and the grant of probate or letters of administration that bring an estate to distribution.

  • Will drafting
  • Grant of probate
  • Letters of administration
  • Executry
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Estate Administration

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Administering an estate end to end, including the transfer of land and other titled assets after the death of the owner.

  • Transmission of land
  • Asset distribution
  • Intermeddling disputes
  • Beneficiary disputes
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Business Succession

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Family constitutions, shareholder continuity, and founder-succession structures that stop the third-generation collapse.

  • Family constitutions
  • Founder succession
  • Share continuity
  • Ring-fencing
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Succession is not a document. It is the last two phases of one lifecycle.

Every enduring family solves four problems in order: can the value exist without you, will insiders destroy it, can outsiders interact with it without breaking it, and what happens when you are gone. Succession and estate planning answer the last two, Capital and Transmission.

That is why we do not start with a product. We start with a question: which phase are you in, and which one is about to fail? The structure follows from the answer, a trust, a will, an administration plan, a family constitution, or the combination that actually fits your assets.

All succession insights →
Family Trusts · 14 min

How to set up a family trust in Kenya, and why most wealth never reaches a third generation.

Wills & Probate · 10 min

Dying without a will in Kenya: how intestate succession divides your estate.

Estate Administration · 9 min

Transferring land after the death of the owner in Kenya, step by step.

Robin Muthomi Mutiga

Managing Advocate, Muthomi Mutiga & Co

Advocate of the High Court of Kenya (admitted 2025) advising families and business principals on succession, family trusts, and the structures that let value outlast its creator. Founder of the Continuity Arc approach to lifecycle legal planning.

Advocate of the High Court of Kenya · Regulated by the Law Society of Kenya · Full profile

Find out which phase you are in.

A free thirty-minute consultation, reserved each week for families and principals planning succession. We map your assets to the right structure and tell you what to do first.

Conversations are privileged and confidential. Regulated by the Law Society of Kenya.

Book a free consultation or call +254 799 157 696