Facts: you dont like him now, this was outside work and in that would be unfair to fire as not work related and also legal issues. You are splitting from your wife.
My solution would be make the divorce settlement to be mostly made up from the company. Offload what else you can onto the other chap with fiscal compensation. Then once that has setteled and be all friendly about it you then after a nice little holiday break set up a competeing company and do what you want to do with a clean slate with the knowledge of the buisness, list of employee's you wish to recruit from the old company and relationships with the customers. That is what I would do, only fair and works on many levels of karma as well as enabling you to completely in effect restructure the company in a way that enables you to do it with all that hindsite you have gained and is an emense advantage. Also get misconduct clauses in the contracts that can be leveridged in such matter. Though even if you did have that enabling you to dismiss him without fallback you still need to perhaps make people more dispensible in your company design.
But your company is your life and so is your wife and with that too lose one and have the other stabbed up is certainly a unplesant situation and with that; Don't get mad, get even. But it is had not to get mad so channel it and tap into that new resovoir of energy - some of us have to drink lots of coffee to obtain that level of energy.
My solution would be make the divorce settlement to be mostly made up from the company. Offload what else you can onto the other chap with fiscal compensation. Then once that has setteled and be all friendly about it you then after a nice little holiday break set up a competeing company and do what you want to do with a clean slate with the knowledge of the buisness, list of employee's you wish to recruit from the old company and relationships with the customers. That is what I would do, only fair and works on many levels of karma as well as enabling you to completely in effect restructure the company in a way that enables you to do it with all that hindsite you have gained and is an emense advantage. Also get misconduct clauses in the contracts that can be leveridged in such matter. Though even if you did have that enabling you to dismiss him without fallback you still need to perhaps make people more dispensible in your company design.
But your company is your life and so is your wife and with that too lose one and have the other stabbed up is certainly a unplesant situation and with that; Don't get mad, get even. But it is had not to get mad so channel it and tap into that new resovoir of energy - some of us have to drink lots of coffee to obtain that level of energy.