In this week’s New York Business Divorce learn whether, and if so, under what circumstances, the New York Surrogate’s Court can compel an accounting of a non-party business entity in which a decedent’s estate holds a minority stake.
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Business Divorce in the Surrogate’s Court
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In this week’s New York Business Divorce, we consider an interesting question raised by the occasional overlap of two niche areas of law practice: the jurisdictional power of New York’s probate courts to resolve business divorce disputes.
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Surrogate’s Court Declines to Order Demise of Fashion Business
In a rare dissolution decision from the New York Surrogate’s Court – a court for the affairs of the deceased – the court declines to kill off a clothing business based upon a claim of oppression brought by the estate of the former minority shareholder. Read about it in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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