Just had a loooong talk with H about the end of the business. He is off watching a movie and I thought I would journal the convo while it was still fresh in my mind.
I started the talk by asking just how possible it might be to end up in court over all this, either against BMOW or fighting on the same side with her against some other entities. H responded by saying that he feels that the only possible thing that could land us in court opposite BMOW is if she started a smear campaign against him in an effort to get to me. I asked him to elaborate and he said that because she hates me so much, the only way he knew that she could hurt him for leaving her and now the business would be to drag him to court and charge him with abandoning her and the company. He went on to ask me just how possible I thought that was, and I said I figured anything was possible with her and a father who has very deep pockets and a lot of disposable pocket change.
He asked me rather rhetorically how it would make her look to testify that they had an affair while developing this business, but he then chose to leave her and the business to return to his wife? He went on to say that it couldn't possibly wash in court. He believes a judge would see it as a waste of time and resources and throw the case out because we are not talking about a million dollar company here.
As far as him being called to stand together with her to defend themselves or the business in court, he is going to try to prevent that in the following manner:
His first step toward the eventual goal of dissolving the company as it exists today will be to send a certified letter to her with carbons to all the business partners saying that he was officially and formally resigning from the business in all capacities and the letter is to serve as a statement that he will not be held liable for any of the company's debts, etc, if there are any.
Then following the letter, the link to the business website will be completely removed, and the business partner providing the free internet space for the website will no longer provide it and will pull out also. That will leave one business partner holding 75% of the stock in the company and BMOW/fiance with 25%. They can decide what to do with the company there on out, but H will no longer be associated with it in any capacity. If the delinquent reports are not rectified and filed by April 15, then what is left of the company will be automatically dissolved by the appropriate authorities regardless of what else happens.
There was a third scenario that he said might happen also. Upon receiving H's resignation letter, BMOW might simply say that she doesn't want anything else to do with the company either and then she resigns and relinquishes all her responsibility for debt, etc. If that happens, then we keep the company and re-organize it and take over, file the necessary reports, etc, and bring the company up-to-date.
But, just in case H is overlooking something, he will seek legal counsel first. He is going to draft the resignation letter this weekend and then we will visit the lawyer next week to get his opinion and input and proceed from there.
I don't know how right or wrong any of this all is, but I am going to respect how my H wants to handle it and deal with the fallout as it occurs. I would appreciate you mentioning any red flags/flaws that you might see in his reasoning so that I might point them out to H. I need to also mention that H has discussed all this with the business partners and they support him and his methods for dealing with all this.
I will of course keep everyone posted on the proceedings.
LG
A blessed and happy marriage is a union of two forgivers and Him, because...a cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12.
