Help Me Ditch My Business Partners!

Nina L. Kaufman, Esq.

Nina L. Kaufman, Esq.

Nina L. Kaufman, Esq., owner of Ask The Business Lawyer, is an award-winning business attorney, speaker, and Entrepreneur Magazine online contributor. She saves consulting and professional services companies time, money, and aggravation by serving as their outsourced legal counsel.

Posted on March 10, 2010 in Disputes

Horror of horrors!  You’re stuck in a business partnership with NO agreement.  You have to get out . . . or get the others out before you go postal and end up in a prison of a different sort.  What can you do?

Kathleen Ryan O’Connor answers that very question in Forbes Small Business. After a brief “I told you so” about not having a written agreement, she gets down to brass tacks:  if you want to stay, you’ll have to be prepared to make concessions.  Ya gotta give to get.  But what she doesn’t mention is this:  if you can’t reach an amicable agreement, your next stop is either the courthouse or to walk away.  And neither is a particularly attractive choice.

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