Business Planning
Member Managed LLC’s are a Bad Idea
Is a Member Managed LLC a Good Idea or a Bad Idea? With rare exceptions, Member Managed LLC’s are a bad idea. In spite of this, the most common form of LLC structure is Member Managed. Sadly, almost all CPA’s and even some attorneys have no idea that a Member Managed LLC fails to accomplish…
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Jurisdictional Diversification Jurisdictional Diversification is a reality for most people whether they know it or not. If you have family members or property or business interests in more than one place, you are dealing with more than one jurisdiction. Most of the time, such jurisdictional diversification happens by accident. We just go where we go…
Read MoreNaked LLC
Imagine that you must appear in public. You go to your closet. There is nothing there. You will be on display for the whole world to seem completely naked. What is a Naked LLC? Going out in public naked is what it is like to operate a business in a “naked LLC”. You are completely…
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Business Limited Partnership vs. Family Limited Partnership For many years the “Family Limited Partnership” has been used an both an estate planning and asset protection tool. There have been a number of catastrophic failures of such entities. Most often, the reason for the failure is the absence of a business purpose or a failure to…
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