Family businesses are the dominant form in most national economies. The specifics that distinguish family businesses from non-family businesses indicate their positive and negative sides. In family businesses, family members are focused on long-term business orientation for the benefit of both the family and the company. The issue of transfer of ownership or company management represents one of the main challenges in a family business. Although the employment of a professional manager is one of the different forms of business transfer and is not so common due to the problem of distrust towards a person who is not a family member, it is considered that such a form of transfer of management of the company represents a good solution for the company in certain circumstances. Cases in which the owners of family businesses decide to engage a professional manager occur when the company is at the maturity of its business and needs a change in management, and there is no adequate family member who would be ready to take on the responsibility of managing the company. The final paper consists of two parts: in the first part of the paper, the literature on the specifics of family businesses in relation to non-family businesses is analyzed, with an emphasis on the inclusion of a non-family member in the management position of the company and the challenges it causes. In the second part of the paper, based on primary sources of information and the conducted interview, an example from practice is presented.