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Is a Family Limited Partnership Right for My Business?

July 29, 2019Small Business Planning, Uncategorized

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Starting a small business is a dream come true for many people. If you are hoping to realize the American dream of becoming an entrepreneur, planning ahead is the key to the long-term success of your business. This is especially true if you plan to pass the business down to the next generation. In fact, the lack of planning is one of the leading reasons why so many family businesses fail to make a successful transition from one generation to the next. There are a number of strategies you can use … [Read more...] about Is a Family Limited Partnership Right for My Business?

How Can You Pass a Business Onto Your Kids?

September 27, 2017Estate Planning, Small Business Planning

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An estate planning attorney should be consulted if you are a business owner so you can take steps to ensure you have made appropriate plans for the survival of your company after you are gone. You want to ensure that your company is able to survive long beyond your years so you can pass your business down to the next generation. Your company should serve as your legacy, but it is up to you to make certain that you can actually pass your business on.  There are different ways to … [Read more...] about How Can You Pass a Business Onto Your Kids?

Steps to Create a Business Plan

April 27, 2017Small Business Planning

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Starting a business is one of the most exciting things you can do. This gives you the flexibility and freedom you’ve been dreaming of for quite some time. Of course, there’s more to this than meets the eye. Unfortunately, just because you start a business it doesn’t mean it will become a big success. Instead, there are many steps you must take in order for this to happen. The steps you take to create a business plan don’t have to be exactly the same as the next person. Even so, you need to … [Read more...] about Steps to Create a Business Plan

Protect Your Business Interests with an LLC

March 16, 2017Estate Planning, Small Business Planning

Business owners who lack protection for their personal assets need to provide themselves with security that can shield their wealth from creditors and litigants. An LLC can be one of the most effective ways to obtain that protection.

Estate planning is a little different for every individual and family. Some can get by with the simplest of plans, focusing on asset distribution when they die and incapacity planning to protect them from a loss of legal decision-making capacity. Others need special tools like trusts, or family limited partnerships to ensure that money stays in the family. If you own a business, you have special interests that need to be safeguarded too. Your personal assets, for example, need to be protected … [Read more...] about Protect Your Business Interests with an LLC

LLC Formation: How it Works and Why It Matters

January 17, 2017Estate Planning, Small Business Planning

If you own a business and haven’t formed an LLC, your wealth and estate plan could be at risk. Learn how to protect yourself with LLC formation now.

For Indiana businesses, the limited liability company – or LLC – can be a powerful tool for protecting personal assets by shielding entrepreneurs from personal liability. From a business standpoint, that can help to ensure that your home, car, and other personal property are not at risk if the business is ever sued for any reason. The LLC’s real value extends well beyond that protection, however, and extends even into the realm of estate planning. To maximize the benefits that you can enjoy from … [Read more...] about LLC Formation: How it Works and Why It Matters

Can a Partnership Be an LLC? Get the Answers You Need

January 11, 2017Estate Planning, Small Business Planning

If you’re wondering whether your partnership can ever be an LLC, then it’s time you learned the answer and got the asset protection you deserve.

Estate planning can be complex even under the simplest of circumstances. When you own your own business, however, that complexity seems to grow by leaps and bounds. Whether it’s asset protection, succession plans, or buy/sell agreements, there always seems to be some aspect of the company’s structure and operations affecting your overall estate planning effort. For those who share ownership of their company with another person, that partnership can raise other estate planning questions. For … [Read more...] about Can a Partnership Be an LLC? Get the Answers You Need

Six Reasons Why You Need an LLC Operating Agreement

December 15, 2016Estate Planning, Small Business Planning

If your business is organized as a limited liability company, then you need an LLC operating agreement to help guide its operations. Once you learn why, you’ll wonder how you ever got along without one.

As estate planning professionals who have helped many clients who own their own businesses, we’ve been involved with more than our fair share of Limited Liability Companies (LLC). The LLC continues to be one of the most popular ways for entrepreneurs to organize their companies, as it provides an affordable and more manageable way for many small business owners to limit their liability and separate their personal assets from their business interests. For many of these entrepreneurs, however, … [Read more...] about Six Reasons Why You Need an LLC Operating Agreement

Why Your Business Structure Matters

November 29, 2016Estate Planning, Small Business Planning

Estate planning is a complex matter, even under the best of circumstances. That planning can be even more complex when you own your own company, which is why your choice of business structure can sometimes make all the difference in the world.

When you’re committed to sound estate planning, there are many different things to consider. If you own your own business and want to create a sound estate plan, those considerations quickly multiply. Though many business owners never realize it until it’s too late, your company can have a major impact on important estate plan considerations ranging from tax concerns to asset protection. More importantly, a failure to recognize that potential impact could have dire consequences for the … [Read more...] about Why Your Business Structure Matters

How the LLC Limited Liability Can Aid Your Estate Planning Efforts

November 17, 2016Estate Planning, Small Business Planning

If you’re working on an estate plan that doesn’t include asset protection, you might as well be whistling past the graveyard. Find out how LLC limited liability could help safeguard your wealth.

If you’ve been worried about leaving your assets vulnerable to predatory lawsuits, creditors, and other risks, you’re not alone. That’s one of the biggest concerns drawing so many Americans to estate planning these days. The problem that so many people have, however, is that they often end up failing to match their actual concerns with the right solutions. As people seek out free and low-cost estate planning tools on the internet and elsewhere, they often fail to understand that these tools … [Read more...] about How the LLC Limited Liability Can Aid Your Estate Planning Efforts

Estate Planning for Your Business: The LLC Corporate Structure

October 20, 2016Estate Planning, Small Business Planning

If you own a business and are struggling to figure out how to make it work with your estate plan, an LLC may be the perfect solution!

If you’re an adult in the United States, it’s a given that you’re at least somewhat familiar with corporations. And there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve seen at least one business name that had the LLC designation after it – indicating that the enterprise is organized as a Limited Liability Company. For the last two decades in Indiana, the LLC structure has been used by businesses in the state to protect owners’ personal assets from liability that their companies might incur. What you may … [Read more...] about Estate Planning for Your Business: The LLC Corporate Structure

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