Legal Question in Business Law in Maryland

Re: S-Corp between Husband and Wife

This would not be a matter for small claims court. You would have to file an action for an accounting and other equitable relief, such as an order prohibiting your soon-to-be-ex from denying you, as an equal shareholder, access to corporate records. But before you go to court, you ought to explore buying him out of the business, perhaps as part of your divorce proceeding. It seems like it would be very difficult to successfully operate a business under these circumstances, unless one of you has complete control and the other is merely a shareholder with no say in management.

Re: S-Corp between Husband and Wife

I don't think this is a small claims matter. In MD, that allows you to sue for money up to $5000. You may need to obtain equitable/injunctive relief allowing you to exercise your rights as a 50% shareholder and presumably a director and officer of the company, and possibly a dissolution of the corporation and an accounting. You may or may not be able to address some of these issues in the divorce proceeding (particularly if one of you is agreeable to selling out to the other).