A practice built around
the kitchen table.

Kampong Counsel came into being because of a gap that its founders had watched grow for years. Singaporean families in their forties, fifties, and sixties — well-educated, responsible, caring — would put off the paperwork around wills, LPAs, and family succession not from indifference but from not knowing where to begin. The subject felt either too legal for a quiet evening at home or too personal for a boardroom appointment.

The name was chosen deliberately. Kampong is the kind of place where neighbours used to sit together after dinner and work things out over conversation. Counsel is offered, not imposed. That combination — the unhurried neighbourhood exchange, with careful and reliable information — is what we try to recreate in every course.

We are based at Cecil Street, in the heart of Singapore's financial district, but our courses are written for the household level, not the institutional one. We draw on Singapore-specific legal frameworks — the Intestate Succession Act, the Mental Capacity Act, the CPF nomination system, the Special Needs Trust Company, the Syariah Court's inheritance processes — and we translate them into the kind of language that makes sense over a cup of tea at the kitchen table.

Since our founding, we have worked with more than 1,400 learners across Singapore. Many come to us at a turning point: a parent's declining health, the arrival of grandchildren, the approach of retirement, or simply the sudden awareness that certain conversations have been postponed long enough. We receive them wherever they are and proceed from there, without any urgency on our end.