Category: Business Valuation

What Happens to Our Business When We Divorce?

May 19, 2020 | Business Valuation, Divorce, Legal Perspective, Videos

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Pittsburgh divorce attorney Daniel H. Glasser of Pollock Begg explains business valuation in the context of a divorce. If you and your divorcing spouse are co-owners in a business, contact our law firm to make sure you take the necessary steps in protecting and dividing your business. A formidable litigator in the court room with more than two decades of experience, Dan focuses his practice on high net worth cases […]

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Is Divorce Interfering with Your Family Business?

When business owners get divorced, the business may become a casualty if decisive measures are not taken. Divorcing business owners must consider how the company will be operated during the divorce process; the financial impact of divorce-related obligations, like spousal support and legal fees, on business cash flow; and the influence of rumors and conflict at work. These same considerations apply to licensed professionals, like dentists, physicians, accountants and others […]

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Complex Divorce: Dividing the Marriage and the Business

Business attorneys will tell you nothing is more complex than dealing with the dissolution of business partnership. They even refer to it as a “business divorce.”  However, there may be something more complicated than a “business divorce,” and that is an actual divorce between spouses who jointly own a closely held business. Almost one-third of the 2.6 million companies authorized to do business in Pennsylvania are small businesses of fewer than […]

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Lack of Expert, Evidence Foils Business Valuation in Divorce

Personal Goodwill versus Enterprise Goodwill

When a business is an asset in a Pennsylvania divorce, the court needs detailed information — and often a business valuation in divorce — to perform equitable distribution. The information must be presented in court in an effective way.  Not having a business valuation or detailed information can lead to unexpected results.  Recently, in Sweeney v. Sweeney, No. 2164 EDA 2015 (August 30, 2016) (non-precedential), the Superior Court confronted a divorce case in which the […]

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Corporate Successor Not Marital Property Following Post-Sep Business Failure

There is often suspicion when a business that would be marital property fails shortly after marital separation, particularly if the owner spouse subsequently starts a new business.  This is the situation that the Superior Court addressed in its recent opinion, Weisman v. Weisman, Nos. 1471 EDA 2014 (July 14, 2015), a non-precedential decision. Husband was the founder of PRN Healthcare Services, a company that provided skilled and non-skilled nursing care in Montgomery […]

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“Excess Cash” of Professional Practice is not Marital Property in Business Valuation Divorce Case

The Superior Court’s memorandum opinion in Edkin v. Edkin, No. 2017 MDA 2013 (December 23, 2013) arose from a case involving a veterinary practice in the context of divorce.  The wife in Edkin filed a divorce action in 2001. Equitable distribution hearings were held in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2009, resulting in a master’s report issued in 2010. Exceptions were argued in 2010 and 2011, resulting in a final […]

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