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Rules for Company Meetings: Setting Expectations and Guidelines
Rules for Company Meetings: Setting Expectations and Guidelines Regardless of entity type, it’s important to address company meetings. While this stuff is not sexy, it is super important. There are essentially two kinds of meetings: shareholders’ meetings and meetings...
Rights of First Refusal: What They Are and Why Your Business Wants Them
Rights of First Refusal: What They Are and Why Your Business Wants Them Imagine that you own a business with two other people. Splitting ownership between the three of you has been a nice way to split costs, risks, and responsibilities. However, there comes a point...
What Is an LLC? An Introduction to Limited Liability Companies
What Is an LLC? An Introduction to Limited Liability Companies LLCs are relatively new business entities. They take the best of corporations and partnerships and merge them into one awesome hybrid entity. They have tremendous flexibility in a variety of important...
What You Should Know about Involuntary Termination of Employment Transfers
What You Should Know about Involuntary Termination of Employment Transfers Let’s talk about involuntary transfers related to termination of employment or membership interest. When key employees, contractors, or advisors leave a closely-held company, it’s crucial to...
The Default Rules: What Happens If You Fail to Plan Ahead?
The Default Rules: What Happens If You Fail to Plan Ahead? Planning ahead is one of the most important steps you can take to protect your wealth, health, and family. Without a clear plan, the state’s default rules of intestate succession will step in, and they may not...
C-Corporations: Things to Know about This Business Structure
C-Corporations: Things to Know about This Business Structure By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq.October 21, 2024 Corporations are the oldest of business entities. Like the other business entities that we have talked about, they are relatively easy to form. They can satisfy some...
Transfers – Involuntary Death Trigger
What You Should Know about the Involuntary Death Trigger By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq. October 4, 2024 Death is a common trigger of an involuntary transfer, but you need to make sure you set the trigger up to meet the best interests of your business. Without a trigger,...
What Every Business Owner Needs to Know about Ownership Documents
What Every Business Owner Needs to Know about Ownership Documents By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq.December 2, 2024 Governing documents are critical for a lot of reasons, and one of those reasons is to make sure ownership is well- documented. Each entity has different options....
Trust Funding: Everything You Need to Know
Your Guide to the Ins and Outs of Funding Your Trust By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq.September 27, 2024 Today, we're diving into a crucial topic: trust funding. If you've completed your estate planning and established a trust, you're ahead of the curve. You may have heard...
Everything You Should Know about Making Your Business an S Corp
If you are a small business owner, you are likely to own your business through a business entity such as a corporation or limited liability company (LLC). You might also choose to have your business entity taxed as an S corporation. First, what is an S corporation?...
BBK Trust: Corporate And Professional Trustees
What to Know about Corporate And Professional Trustees By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq.September 13, 2024 Understanding the distinctions between a professional trustee and a corporate trustee is crucial for effective trust management. Each type of trustee brings unique...
Profits Interests
What Are Profits Interests and Why Should You Care? By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq.July 11, 2024 Let’s explore a valuable tool for partnerships: profits interests. Whether you're looking to reward key personnel or align their interests with the company's future...
Corporate Transparency Act: What to Know and Who is Affected
Corporate Transparency Act The Corporate Transparency Act is a pivotal piece of legislation that represents a significant shift towards enhancing corporate transparency in the United States. As a relatively new law, it introduces a complex framework aimed at...
Trust Disclosures: What You Need to Know about Notices and Accountings
Trust Disclosures: What You Need to Know about Notices and Accountings By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq.June 21, 2024 If you are administering a trust, there is certain information that you are required to provide to particular parties. This information is covered under an...
What (and Who) Is Involved in Managing Your Trust?
What (and Who) Is Involved in Managing Your Trust? By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq.June 24, 2024 Managing a trust can be a complicated job, which is why it is so important to make sure you choose the right trustee. There are a variety of skills required to make sure...
Trust Succession and Other Trustee Duties
Trust Succession and Other Trustee Duties By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq. June 20, 2024 If you are named as the trustee for someone’s trust, you probably understand that you have some specific duties that you are expected to carry out. What you might not know is that part of...
Where Trust Protectors Fit in a Trust
Trust Protectors Understanding the role of a trust protector or trust advisor can make a significant difference. Depending on the type of trust you have and the kind of guidance you need, these professionals can offer invaluable support. Now that you have a bit of...
BBK: Trust Administration: What Can Go Wrong
What Can Go Wrong In Trust Administration By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq.May 30, 2024 Effective trust administration is crucial to ensuring that a trust is managed according to its terms and the law. However, several challenges can arise, potentially complicating the...
Directed Trustees and Other Possible Trust Parties
Directed Trustees and Other Possible Trust Parties By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq. May 25, 2024 While there are three main parties that are involved in every trust – the Creator, the Trustee, and the Beneficiary – those are not the only possible parties who might be involved...
Powers of Appointment: Situations Where You Might Use Them
Powers of Appointment: Situations Where You Might Use Them By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq. April 10, 2024 A Power of Appointment is a very powerful tool that you can include in a trust to provide additional flexibility if you don’t want to stay locked into the original terms...
Funding Your Trust: Does It Really Need to Happen Right Away?
Funding Your Trust: Does It Really Need to Happen Right Away? By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq. April 18, 2024 If you’re thinking to getting a trust and know other people who have set them up, chances are good that you have gotten the advice – likely unsolicited – that it is...
Trust Distributions
How the Grantor Sets Up Trust Distributions and How the Trustee Manages Them By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq.May 23, 2024 Without distributions, a trust is just a collection of assets sitting around that cannot be touched. Because of this, setting up and managing trust...
What You Need to Know about Involuntary Disability Triggers
What You Need to Know about Involuntary Disability Triggers By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq. May 3, 2024 Disability is a common trigger of an involuntary transfer. If someone cannot perform, they are not able to contribute to the business. They will, meanwhile, continue to...
Introduction to Business Formation: Why It’s Important
Introduction to Business Formation: Why It’s Important By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq. May 2, 2024 Forming a business entity is easy to do, but not as easy to do right. Forming the wrong entity can be a huge problem. Also, putting the wrong information on the filing can be...
What Floridians Need to Know about Asset Protection
What Floridians Need to Know about Asset Protection By: Barry E. Haimo, Esq. May 1, 2024 There isn’t a person who exists who doesn’t want to protect their assets. You’ve worked hard for what you have — however much that is — and you want to make sure it doesn’t get...