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Running a Business with Your Spouse? Here’s How to Stay on Track—At Work and at Home

June 4, 2025

Running a business with your spouse can be incredibly rewarding—but let’s be honest, it’s not always easy. You live together, work together, and probably spend most of your free time together too. With that kind of closeness, it’s important to find balance, both personally and professionally. Here are a few…

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Why Your LLC Needs an Operating Agreement

November 4, 2024

An operating agreement is crucial for LLCs as it outlines the operational framework and provides various benefits.
• Customizable Business Operations: An operating agreement allows LLCs to customize their management and ownership structures, including profit distribution, ownership transfer restrictions, tax payment methods, and signatories for business accounts.
• Maintaining Limited Liability: Having an operating agreement helps maintain the limited liability of LLC members by demonstrating the separation between the business and its owners, which is especially important for single-member LLCs.
• Decision-Making Framework: The agreement specifies how decisions are made within the LLC, which is vital for multimember and manager-managed LLCs to avoid conflicts and ensure smooth operations.

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Continuity Planning

June 24, 2024

Our friend John has a job at Publix. He has a good job, a comfortable salary, and a nice home. However, John has never thought about what would happen if he lost his job or became ill or injured. One day, John is involved in a car accident and is…

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Planning for Your Digital Legacy

October 7, 2022

Instead of existing in photo albums and on videotapes and DVDs, most of our family photos and videos are now digital. Even if they lack commercial value, they certainly have sentimental value that you want to preserve for your family and friends. Social media accounts containing your photos and videos can also have value to your loved ones when you are gone.

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LLC Voting Rights: Who Has a Voice?

September 27, 2022

On average, 4 million new businesses are started each year in the United States. Many of those businesses are organized as limited liability companies (LLCs). Combining the benefits of a corporation and a partnership, an LLC protects its members’ personal assets from business liabilities, avoids double taxation, and provides flexibility…

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How to Protect Your Family’s Financial Risk

October 20, 2021

Also called “Continuity Planning” our goal it to reduce any long-term risk for our businesses and family investments.  Businesses should also consider business succession plans (what happens if the unthinkable happens) or simply planning for retirement as well.

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Seniors Starting Businesses for their Contemporaries

October 29, 2020

Many entrepreneurs are successfully navigating new opportunities in serving their own peers.

Specifically, the article discusses the new career of “Patient Advocates” for the Elderly who are helping the adult or “sandwich generation” children navigate the complex and, sometimes horrific, medical system.

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