Divorce · Business
What happens to my business in a Florida divorce?
Valuation, marital vs. non-marital characterization, and the options for keeping your company whole.
Read more →Mack Law, P.A. · Orlando
A boutique Orlando firm focused on high-net-worth divorce and business litigation — protecting business owners, executives, and professionals when significant assets, a company, or a reputation are on the line.
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When the stakes are high, preparation decides the outcome.
When a marriage or a business reaches litigation, the gap between a good outcome and a costly one comes down to three things: preparation, command of the financial facts, and the genuine willingness to try the case. Mack Law brings all three to clients whose situations are rarely simple — a closely-held business to value and protect, equity compensation to divide, real estate and retirement assets in play, or a partnership that has broken down.
Practice Areas
Protecting business owners, executives, physicians, and professionals through divorces involving significant or complex assets — and the spouses who need to be sure nothing is hidden.
Representing owners and stakeholders when a business relationship breaks down or a deal goes wrong — fast, strategic, and credible in court.
Serving as your outside general counsel — the legal work, contracts, and advice that keep your business protected and moving forward.
Why Mack Law
We work fluently with valuations, forensic accounting, and complex assets — alongside the CPAs and appraisers your case needs. We find what others miss.
Every case is prepared for trial — so when we negotiate, we negotiate from strength, never from fear. The discipline of a veteran, applied to your fight.
Confidential from the first call. A clear plan, calm guidance, and a steady hand on the highest-stakes decisions affecting your family and your business.
How We Work
We learn your situation, your assets, and your goals — privately, and without obligation.
We build the full financial picture and a plan tailored to exactly what you need to protect.
We negotiate from strength and are always prepared to try the case. You stay informed and in control.
Lead Practice
When there is a business to protect, significant assets to divide, or a reputation to safeguard, divorce becomes a financial and strategic matter as much as a personal one. We represent both the business-owner spouse and the spouse who needs certainty that everything has been brought to light.
Valuing, protecting, and dividing closely-held companies, professional practices, and partnership interests — so the business keeps running.
Marshaling, tracing, and characterizing marital and non-marital property across entities, accounts, and real estate.
Dividing RSUs, stock options, deferred compensation, and bonuses — including unvested awards that are easy to overlook.
When the numbers don't add up, we work with forensic accountants to find what's been moved, masked, or missed.
Florida eliminated permanent alimony in 2023. We position your case under the new bridge-the-gap, rehabilitative, and durational framework.
Drafting, enforcing, and challenging marital agreements for business owners and high earners.
Explore each family-law area in depth: Divorce · Child Custody & Time-Sharing · Child Support · Alimony · Division of Property · 401(k)/IRA/Stock Division · Injunctions · Adoption · Military Divorce · Sperm / Egg Donor Law · Modification, Contempt & Enforcement
Business Litigation
When a business relationship breaks down or a deal goes wrong, the right response is fast, strategic, and credible in court. We bring the same trial-readiness and financial command we apply to complex divorce — protecting the value of what you've built.
Oppression, deadlock, and freeze-outs among owners — protecting your stake and your standing.
Enforcing and defending commercial agreements where real money and momentum are at stake.
Fraud, misrepresentation, and tortious interference with contracts or business relationships.
Enforcement and defense of restrictive covenants and confidential-information claims.
Separating owners and valuing the exit when a partnership has run its course.
Claims among owners, officers, and partners who owed — and broke — a duty of loyalty or care.
Explore each litigation area: Breach of Contract · Shareholder & Partnership Disputes · Business Fraud & Torts · Non-Compete & Trade Secrets · Breach of Fiduciary Duty · Business Divorce & Buyouts
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Business Advisory
Many business owners need a trusted legal partner on call — without the cost of a full-time, in-house legal department. Mack Law serves as your outside general counsel: handling the day-to-day legal work, drafting and negotiating your contracts, and advising on the decisions that keep your business protected and moving forward.
A dedicated attorney for your business — in-house-style guidance on day-to-day legal questions, on a flat-fee or as-needed basis.
Vendor, customer, employment, NDAs, leases, and partnership agreements — drafted, reviewed, and negotiated to protect your interests.
LLC and corporate formation, operating and shareholder agreements, and clean corporate governance.
Practical advice on the issues that come up as you operate — customers, vendors, employees, and everyday risk.
Offer letters, handbooks, non-competes, and guidance on hiring, discipline, and separation.
Spotting and resolving problems before they become litigation — with our trial bench behind you if they do.
Explore each advisory area: Outside General Counsel · Business Contracts · Business Formation & LLCs · Corporate Governance · Employment & HR · Buying & Selling a Business
Meet Michael Mackhanlall
Michael is a life-long Florida native, born in a solid blue-collar suburb. From a young age Michael understood the value of hard work, working with his father in the construction industry. His sense of service and commitment to helping others inspired him to join the military shortly after 9/11. Michael supported combat search-and-rescue and counter-terrorism operations as a USAF airborne radio operator aboard rescue aircraft, where he learned many life lessons and values that he takes with him throughout his law practice.
Michael is a fighter who voluntarily deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, North Africa, and to disaster relief operations around the world; he was recognized as the 2005 Airman of The Year. After receiving his business degree and his securities licenses he worked for an investment bank before attending law school.
After graduating in the top ten percent of his class, Michael worked as a Prosecutor, where he learned critical trial skills in the direct and cross-examination of hostile witnesses and experts. Michael expanded on this foundation by moving on to work for a top civil trial firm which represented major auto manufacturers in roll-over crashes and tire manufacturers in blow-out cases resulting in death or great bodily harm. Michael saw first-hand how the rich and powerful can use their unlimited money and resources to bury the little guy.
These experiences have seasoned Michael in making your presentation of the evidence before a Judge in your case. In the family-law arena, Michael has regularly stood up against the fancy high-priced law firms in town and has been victorious many times. He has represented clients in complex divorces and highly contested child custody (time-sharing) cases. He has also represented clients charged from high-profile sex-crime offenses to felonies punishable by life. He has tried cases up to felonies punishable by life and has been victorious. He has also successfully represented clients whose civil cases were declined by the big “billboard” attorneys in town and has successfully recovered over one million dollars for clients in wrongful-death and other catastrophic-injury cases.
Michael is well versed in highly contested cases, as referenced by his more than 100+ five-star reviews on Avvo, along with a 10/10 “Superb” rating. Recently, Michael was awarded the 2021 Legal Elite award and featured in Orlando Style magazine, and was selected as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer in Florida by The National Trial Lawyers Organization — which selects attorneys for membership by invitation only, recognizing those who exemplify superior qualifications as trial lawyers.
Michael maintains his office in Orlando and has represented thousands of individuals across Central Florida in his ten years of practice. His peers consider him a highly skilled and hard-working attorney. He has provided representation to people who are indigent, middle class, high-net-worth, and everyone in between.
When you’re at the worst point in your life, or facing serious legal problems, that is the time to get Mike on your side, fighting for you when you need it most.
Standing & Service
Representative Matters
Illustrative of the firm's focus. Details are generalized to protect client confidentiality.
Structuring the valuation and division of a marital estate built around an operating business — so the company survives the divorce intact.
Accounting for equity awards, deferred compensation, and multiple properties in a high-income dissolution.
Representing an owner in a partnership breakdown — pursuing a fair buyout while keeping the business operating.
The matters above are representative illustrations of the firm's areas of focus and are not a guarantee of any particular result. Every case is different; prior outcomes do not predict or guarantee a similar outcome in your matter.
Insights
Valuation, marital vs. non-marital characterization, and the options for keeping your company whole.
Read more →Permanent alimony is gone. Here's how the durational framework changes exposure and strategy.
Read more →Your options — from buyout to dissolution — when co-owners can no longer work together.
Read more →Speak with Michael Mackhanlall in a confidential consultation. We respond promptly, and your inquiry stays private.
Request a Confidential ConsultationFrequently Asked
Yes. We focus on high-net-worth and complex divorce for business owners, executives, physicians, and professionals across Orange, Seminole, and Osceola counties — including matters involving closely-held businesses, equity compensation, real estate, and retirement assets.
Usually the presence of significant or hard-to-value assets — a business or professional practice, executive or equity compensation, multiple properties, retirement and deferred accounts, or concerns about hidden assets — where command of the financial facts decides the outcome.
Yes. We work with valuation experts and forensic accountants to value, characterize, and divide business interests so the company can keep operating, and we prepare every matter for trial.
Shareholder and partnership disputes, breach of contract, business torts and fraud, non-compete and trade-secret matters, and business divorce (dissolution and buyouts) — for owners and stakeholders in Orlando and Central Florida.
Florida eliminated permanent alimony in 2023. Courts now award bridge-the-gap, rehabilitative, or durational alimony, with durational awards generally capped at the lesser of the recipient’s need or 35% of the difference in the parties’ net incomes. For high earners, this reshapes both exposure and strategy.
Contact
Tell us a little about your situation. Your inquiry is confidential, and we respond promptly. For immediate assistance, call the firm directly.
1607 Woodward St, Suite 12
Orlando, FL 32803