Monthly Archives: September 2026
Structured Payouts and Promissory Notes When Dividing a Business in Divorce
A house can be sold. A retirement account can be split by formula. A privately owned business resists both of those easy solutions, and that is what makes dividing one in a divorce a tricky problem. When the marital estate includes a company, how does one spouse actually pay the other for their share,… Read More »
How a Divorce Filing Can Affect a Miami Business’s Credit and Financing
Business owners tend to think of divorce as a private matter. Once a lender, a vendor, or even a landlord catches wind of the filing, that assumption often falls apart fast. A divorce can quietly reshape a company’s ability to borrow money, extend credit, or keep day-to-day operations running smoothly while the case moves… Read More »
Key Person Life Insurance Wasn’t Built for Divorce, But It Should Account for One
The name gives it away. Key person life insurance is built to protect a business from losing someone to death, not to a marriage ending. Fair enough. But has anyone at your company ever asked what happens to that same coverage, and the business it protects, when the disruption comes from a courtroom instead… Read More »
The Pre-Wedding Checklist Item Most Business Owners Forget: Reviewing Your Buy-Sell Agreement
Cake tastings, seating charts, venue deposits. Somewhere on that list, or nowhere on it at all, should be a document sitting in a file drawer that could quietly determine whether your business survives if your marriage does not. If you own an interest in a company and a wedding date is set, your buy-sell… Read More »
Your Business Built the Empire. Does Your Marriage Contract Protect It?
You spent years building something from scratch, maybe out of a garage, a spare bedroom, or a single client contract that eventually grew into a real company. Now you are getting married, and a quiet question has probably crossed your mind. If this marriage ever ends, does your business end up divided along with… Read More »
Keep Your Company Out of the Courtroom Spotlight With Confidential Arbitration
Business owners tend to guard information carefully. Client lists, internal financials, and ownership structures are not things you want circulating in a public court file for competitors, employees, or the press to stumble across. So what happens when a divorce threatens to drag all of that information into the open? For many South Florida… Read More »