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When business partners face unexpected windfalls and ownership questions

My business partner and I each put $20 into the office lottery pool as a joke and we won $200,000 and now we can't agree whether this counts as business income or personal windfall and it's affecting how we work together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Windfall money reveals the unspoken agreements that partnerships depend on, forcing clarity about what belongs to the relationship versus the individuals.

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