It's rarely a good idea to divide a small business. It's not like dividing up Time Warner where someone gets the movies and someone gets TV residuals...

The business has a much greater likelihood of survival if you take an approach that emphasizes survival of the business. The focus needs to be less on splitting each asset 50/50 as it is on taking a holistic approach and seeing that some assets will wind up on the wife's side of the ledger and some on the husband's side of ledger.

The lawyer can play a role in the education of mom and pop that the kids need to get the business to work. It may make more sense for one partner to make a down payment for a house than to get the business' pots and pans and delivery vehicles.

What we need to do now is to unite and get together with the real business at hand. Now is the time to bring everybody together.

Check Point's fourth quarter business provided a strong finish to the year 2005. Our fourth quarter and annual 2005 financial results reached record levels across earnings per share, revenues, deferred revenues, and cash balances.

We are double-checking the situation regarding COBRA benefits. Some authorities say even if they discontinue business, they have to maintain group health insurance.