You and your co-founder each own 50% of a Long Island City design studio. For nine years you agreed on everything. Now you disagree on everything — whether to renew the lease, whether to hire a new senior partner, whether to keep pursuing city contracts or pivot to private clients. Every vote ties. Payroll is about to bounce because neither of you will approve the wire. Welcome to a 50/50 LLC deadlock in New York, and it's one of the messiest business divorces the commercial

Your bookkeeper just disappeared with $850,000 from your construction company's operating account. Your former partner emptied a joint Manhattan brokerage account and bought a beach house in the Hamptons. The bank tells you it's a civil matter, the police tell you to hire a lawyer, and the money is moving fast. In New York, the legal vehicle for getting that money back isn't a breach of contract claim — it's a tort claim called conversion, often paired with a constructive tru