I Think My Brother Is Trying to Steal the Family Business. My Parents Refuse to Get Involved.

Pay Dirt Aug 05, 20266:00 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by NejroN/Getty Images Plus. Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) Dear Pay Dirt, My parents own a luxury sales business, and my brother has worked there for the past 20 years. My mother works there too, but always dissuaded me from going into the family business because it’s very customer service oriented, and she thought I’d want a career with more work/life balance. Instead, I started my own business more 20 years ago, and it has been very successful. Now my parents are retiring and my brother wants to take full ownership of our parents’ business. But how he wants to do it is fishy. We hired a business valuation firm to value the business and they valu