After a four-day bench trial, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge William Thomas has attempted to settle a messy squabble among former partners at defunct Miami bankruptcy and litigation firm Ehrenstein Charbonneau Calderin.

Three out of four partners, Robert Charbonneau, Jacqueline Calderin and Christopher Spuches, had moved to dissolve the firm after 11 years in business so that they could start practicing together—without their partner Michael Ehrenstein, who fought the dissolution.