Divorce doesn’t necessarily mean the destruction of a family business
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Bob Merlin, FACP member and principal of Robert J. Merlin, P.A., wrote a guest column for the South Florida Business Journal
Understanding Collaborative Family Law
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Collaborative Family Law dates back to 1990 and it serves as an alternative to adversarial divorce.