What happens to an entrepreneur's business upon a New Jersey divorce? It's an important question, given that small business is the primary engine of economic growth in America. Very small businesses (with fewer than 20 employees) are responsible for half of the country's nonfarm real gross domestic product and "have generated 60% to 80% of the net new jobs over the past decade." For the entrepreneur of a small company without a prenuptial agreement eliminating the entity from contention, the business is just another asset in the marital estate subject to distribution. Regardless of whether it's an S corporation, a limited liability corporation, limited partnership or even a sole proprietorship, you have the right to have the entity valued and divided, typically in the form of a lump sum payout to the uninvolved spouse, when you and your partner part. Forbes Magazine, December 13, 2006