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Divorcing With a Business

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If you are a business owner and you’re married, your spouse is your business partner, whether they are involved in the operations of that business or not.  So when a divorce occurs, the business of the business gets a little more complicated.

Mike Switzer interviews Stephanie Vokral, a certified financial planner, certified financial divorce analyst, and founder of The Financial Knot in Columbia, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.