The Business Of Breaking Up: When Owners Divorce

Joseph Carini and Aurelie Lang are the owners of Carini Lang, a Manhattan carpet company. They also happen to be going through a divorce. The two continue to work together on their business, however.

Where business and personal matters were once easily addressed over the dinner table, now the couple must set more rigid guidelines for surviving business ownership as exes. Here’s some advice from CNN’s small business experts:

• Set boundaries, such as making a pact not to discuss family (i.e., children) or personal matters at the office—ever. Don’t turn a business call into a discussion about divorce lawyers or papers.
• Create a 3-year business plan to make decision-making easier down the line. If the two owners can agree on a goal and a plan, making decisions about expansion, hires and more will be more guided.
• Define each person’s role, including day-to-day tasks, and stick to it.

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