Q&A: Lawyer helps business partners break up

Q: You call yourself a business divorce lawyer. How are partnership troubles similar to marital disputes?
A: In a family partnership – a marriage – you can walk in and say I don’t want to be with that person anymore and terminate the relationship. There is no corresponding right to go to a judge in a partnership dispute to ask the court to throw your partner out. You can’t just say there are irreconcilable differences. We have to create legal risk to eject them – remove them, buy them out – and regain control of the business.

Read the entire article at the Houston Chronicle.