The subject of the article is a newly established in the Polish legal system institution of the succession management board of a natural person’s enterprise. The article presents individual components of this institution, starting from the appointment of a succession manager, the legal and business requirements imposed on him, through his legal relationships with heirs entitled to inherit the enterprise after the deceased entrepreneur and the legal relationships that occur between the succession manager and business partners, consumers and employees of the existing enterprise, to the issues related to the legal and administrative consequences of the succession of the enterprise. The article ends with comments devoted to a specific situation in which the enterprise is run as a part of a civil partnership of partners who are natural persons. Issues related to the loss of authorization to perform the function of a manager and the expiry of the succession board together with the evaluation of the functioning of the regulations close the structure of the article.