Closely-held businesses may face issues of corporate deadlock where control of the business is evenly divided between two owners or two different factions of owners, especially where the owners are also family members. This can often happen after control of a business passes from the founding generation to their children or grandchildren. Yet if the business is still profitable despite the deadlock between the owners, the traditional remedies of an appointment of a custodian or dissolution of the business are typically inappropriate. The appointment of a provisional director—an underutilized and often misunderstood remedy—provides a solution whereby the deadlock can be broken without disrupting the corporation's day-to-day business.