Nolo's LLC Handbook: A Complete Legal Guide to Creating and Operating Your LLC

by Secor Glen Attorney

Overview

Like having a lawyer on your desk

Nolo’s LLC Handbook is your one-stop legal guide for forming and maintaining your multi-member LLC. The book explains the forms and agreements you’ll use to manage the legal aspects of your LLC, including:

• choosing and reserving a business name
• filing articles of organization
• creating an operating agreement
• creating a buyout agreement
• managing transfers of LLC interests
• maintaining legal and tax compliance
• dissolving your LLC

Nolo’s LLC Handbook is a practical guide for the life of your LLC.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781413332230
Publisher:	NOLO
Publication date:	10/29/2024
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Glen Secor is a Nolo editor and a Massachusetts attorney with over 30 years' experience in the practice of business and intellectual property law. He holds degrees from Suffolk UniversityLaw School and Harvard Law School, and has taught at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.

Table of Contents

Intro: Your LLC Legal Companion
Part A. Formation
1 Preliminary Decisions: Registered Agent and Type of Management
2 Name Searches and Reservations
3 Registering Your LLC—Articles of Organization
4 Tax Steps
5 Using a Formation Service for Your Articles
Part B. Operating Agreements
6 Why You Need an Operating Agreement
7 Member-Managed LLC Operating Agreement
8 Manager-Managed LLC Operating Agreement
9 Using an Online Formation Service for Your Operating Agreement
Part C. Buy-Sell Agreements and Other Ownership Transfer Agreements
10 Buy-Sell Agreements and Other Ownership Transfer Agreements
Part D. Maintaining Your LLC
11 Legal Filings to Maintain Your LLC
12 Tax Reporting
13 Voting On and Documenting Management and Ownership Decisions
E. Dissolving an LLC
14 Dissolution Agreement
15 Terminating With the State: Articles of Dissolution
Appendix A: Sample State and IRS Forms
Appendix B: Sample Agreements
Appendix C: Downloadable Forms on Nolo’s Website

Editorial Reviews

Absolutely 'user friendly' in style, organization and presentation,"Nolo's LLC Handbook: A Complete Legal Guide to Creating and Operating Your LLC" is essential reading and DIY instructional step-by-step guide for anyone wanting to start up their entrepreneurial business as a Limited Liability Corporation. This paperback edition of "Nolo's LLC Handbook: A Complete Legal Guide to Creating and Operating Your LLC" is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and college/university library Business/Entrepreneurship collections and supplemental MBA curriculum studies lists. It should be noted for students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that "Nolo's LLC Handbook: A Complete Legal Guide to Creating and Operating Your LLC" is also readily available in a digital book format. "Library Bookwatch, James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review"

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