
A family foundation is a new type of legal entity introduced in Poland by the Act of 26 January 2023 and modelled on the institutions of the private foundation, the enterprise foundation or the trust known in many foreign jurisdictions. It enables the achievement of a number of important economic goals, with succession planning and asset protection at the leading edge, but at the same time, it is subject to doctrinal criticism, primarily in terms of systemic and structural consistency, adequacy of nomenclature and possible field of application, as well as the adopted method of regulation. The purpose of this paper is to verify these objections.