Matrimonial

Divorcing Husband Not Smiling Over Court’s Rejection of Ownership Interest in Wife’s Dental Practice

By Peter Mahler on November 6, 2017

Posted in Family-Owned Businesses, Professional Service LLCs, Standing

This week’s New York Business Divorce features the “double whammy” of a fight over ownership of a highly successful dental practice, spiced with allegations of illegal kickbacks for patient referrals, intertwined with an acrimonious matrimonial divorce between the two litigants. …
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Court Decision Weds Business Divorce with Matrimonial Divorce

By Peter Mahler on March 7, 2011

Posted in Dissolution Procedure, LLCs

In a rare intersection of matrimonial and business divorce, last week the Appellate Division, Third Department, upheld the dismissal of an LLC dissolution proceeding brought by one spouse on the ground it was superseded by the other spouse’s prior-filed divorce action. But wait a minute; how can the court simply disregard the LLC as a separate entity? Read more in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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