When your sibling won't commit to decisions, the business doesn't stall once — it stalls on repeat. Every hire, every price increase, every product that needed two owners and only got one. Here's what that's actually costing you.
When one sibling wants cash out and the other wants to reinvest, the business doesn't move in either direction — it just pays for the disagreement every quarter. This isn't a money argument. It's a vision argument. And it doesn't resolve itself.
Your sibling is taking money out of the business through draws and trips running through as business expenses. You've said something. Nothing changed. That's not a communication problem. It's a structural one — and only an attorney can fix it.
Firing a family member in a family business is one of the hardest decisions an owner will ever make. Here's what the exit actually looks like — and how to do it without destroying the family in the process.
