What you don’t know can hurt you – and your family and your business. Being prepared means having a plan to navigate life’s unforgiving uncertainties both during life and after death. We’re talking, of course, about estate planning, and it’s important to realize that...
As the name suggests, an involuntary transfer of your ownership share of a business is a transfer that you are not choosing to make. It is a transfer that is forced upon you due to specific circumstances, which are generally beyond your control. What kind of...
Governing documents consist of shareholders agreements and bylaws for corporations, operating agreements for limited liability companies (LLCs), limited partnership agreements for limited partnerships (LPs) and partnership agreements for partnerships. They are super...
When you start a business with other people, each of you own a percentage of it – a share. In a two-person partnership, each of you might have a 50-50 share. Adding more people or entities of ownership, obviously, means a reduced shared for everyone. But what if one...
We’ve written in the past about the frustratingly high percentage of people who do not have an estate plan. People who, if something happened to them today, would leave their assets – their legacy – completely at the mercy of the law, with no personal say in what...
If you’re thinking of setting up a trust and you’ve never done it before, you probably have a lot of questions. How do you do it? Who needs to be involved? How do they work? Are they worth it? In this post, we’re going to try to cover several of those questions to...