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I'm not an attorney but I've been through a legal and moral and economic nightmare with a condo.
First thing might be to scrutinize the articles of incorporation and whatever documents control the company structure. Does it say that a numerical majority such as the husband/wife/friends team can make changes to bylaws or have allowances for altering any of the initial contract terms and modify their own salaries? Anything? Even vague language? They might even have a legitimate excuse.
Sometimes, well actually a lot of times I've heard from attorneys in the family, those Articles of Incorporation are just copy/pasted from some other organization and are poorly written to begin with. Judges in a bad mood have a field day with paperwork they can't read and decipher easily and throw it all out. It needs to be spelled out or there may be grounds for "self-interpretation" cough. There are controlling local and state laws which may over-rule language. A copy of these might be on the DLEG/LARA website or other corporate registration filings if you don't already have them.
The book keeper has not notified you of this previously so I assume it's a larger organization with multiple partners.
Has the President or Board of Directors made changes without notifying you?
Is your proportional losses from the gross or net profits? (i.e. against that couple or the whole organization)
And then ask do you have a controlling interest with the authority to pursue this unilaterally?
That is the first step: First establish personal authority and quietly begin gathering your initial evidence.
If they spook and cover up their tracks with the help of others you have nothing.
They are lax right now.
An attorney might be able to put the hammer of frozen accounts and subpoenas for discovery all at once, but that is going to cost money and be a huge ruckus in the company.
Will it benefit others and the whole? Or are you alone in this? Is it worth it in the long run?
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