Is my spouse entitled to a portion of my business in Florida?

If in fact, your business is a marital asset, that means it was either begun during the marriage or increased in value during the marriage, then your spouse might be entitled to one-half of the value or one-half of the increase in value. However, that being said, how you value a service business, a doctor, a lawyer, or an architect, those kind of industries in a divorce action is much, much different than how you value them when you’re doing a regular sale to a third party for fair market value. You need the advice of an attorney and sometimes the help and advice of a business appraiser in order to come up with a fair resolution to that particular issue.