My succession plan is pretty simple:
1)Work
2)Die
3)My Wife's new husband comes in and runs the place into the ground. They then sell it for a third of what I paid for it.With the proceeds he gets to open the sports bars that he's always wanted to .....
I'm joking of course, but that is close to what happened to my father. He was a successful self employed businessman who died at a young age, and the vultures came out of the woodwork after my mother.
I rambling, but this thread is a good reminder that I need to prevent something similar from happening to me.