This paper deals with the problem of transferring family businesses and defines the concept of family enterprise, inheritance process and its prerequisites and options available to companies that are unable to transfer business to family successors. The aim of the paper was to explain in more detail the options available to entrepreneurs if they have no successors such as sales, engagement of a professional manager or liquidation of a company. Business owners want for business to stay in the family, but sometimes they have no heirs or potential heirs are not interested in taking over the company. Engaging professional managers and selling companies are more frequent choices because as many as 65% of entrepreneurs who are in the business decision-making phase want the company to continue doing business. Liquidation is the most common choice when there is no other solution. The most prominent mechanisms that support the transfer of ownership in Croatia are the SME Development and Entrepreneurship Policy Center known as CEPOR through which the desired information or counseling can be obtained. In this paper, CEPRA is particularly emphasized, to the Family Business Center and the business transfer that deals with the family businesses emphasized in this paper. CEPRA is a part of CEPOR and is engaged in providing support to small, medium and family businesses in order to facilitate the transfer of business or to overcome other challenges related to the management of family businesses. Finland and France are the countries that are dealing with the problem of transfer of ownership. In Finland, the share of older entrepreneurs is highest, and every year a large number of companies experience transfer of ownership. In Finland there are organizations that support the transfer, however, customers are dissatisfied with the conditions under which the necessary money may come. France's private capital industry provides young entrepreneurs with noninterest- bearing loans, and the state encourages the transfer of ownership through various public programs. Both countries are facing a problem and want to raise awareness of the need to improve systems and conditions in the countries.