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It’s a fact that the great majority of multi-owner, closely held business entities are run by working owners. In many if not most instances the working owners realize the financial benefits of ownership primarily in the form...more
Injunctions are an indispensable weapon in the business divorce lawyer’s arsenal. Primarily defensive in nature, temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions tend to feature prominently at the outset of business...more
The seven-year anniversary of the Texas Supreme Court’s decision in Ritchie v. Rupee has come and gone, and the court’s holding from 2014 remains the law: Minority shareholders in Texas private companies do not have a cause...more
Ownership status in a closely-held business is the first and most vital box almost every business divorce petitioner must check....more
The Cummins Nursery in upstate New York grows, harvests, plants, and grafts fruit trees — mainly apple trees — which along with scions and rootstocks it sells by the tens of thousands each year. There’s also a farm stand and...more
Many business divorce practitioners are familiar with a phenomenon one might call “petitioner’s remorse” – an often abrupt abandonment of one’s desire to dissolve a closely-held business entity when the opposing party...more