Going from running the show yourself to having a partner that is a proven thief and has spent the past 12 years jumping through legal hoops, trying to discredit your work and ruin your company financially, before you can make them pay...
I don't know about that. It's business but there's bound to be a lot of bad blood there. Is it one of those things that's not worth the money? Again, I don't know. Stranger things may have happened though.