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Originally Posted by Fulkth

I know this is kind of random, but I wonder who got the rights to ernya once they got divorced. Because once you get divorced, don't the assets get split?

I wasn't a part of Ernya so I don't know anything about the owners, but I know a bit about splitting assets.

I would assume that Ernya would be registered as a company, a separate entity than the individuals, for tax purposes. This makes it (legally) easier to determine what happens to the company in case of divorce. Simply, the company stays as it is. If only one person is the legal owner of the company, then it stays with that person. If they both legally own 50% of the company, then that also stays the same. You don't have to be married to somebody to own a business with them!

The tricky part comes in if/when they each own 50% of the company and want to have nothing at all to do with each other. This is where you start working with lawyers to work out a buyout of the other person's stake in the company. It gets messy if both people want full ownership. The situation would be the same as if you simply had a falling out with your business partner and no longer wanted to work together. But plus potential emotional baggage, spite, revenge, et cetera that makes it difficult to negotiate.

THIS IS JUST A GUESS but I suppose that it's completely possible that a buyout agreement could not be reached, so the company was dissolved and the assets split. I don't have experience working with lawyers in that capacity, but the sudden shutdown and the hush-hush could have lawyer reasoning.

I'm sure Coda will correct me if I've got any bits wrong, since Coda knows everything. :P