You've amassed a fortune with your line of deer antler spray personal hygiene products. You've focused on business for most of your life, but you've decided to settle down now, proposing to a dancer at your favorite club.
The wedding is set for spring, but your lawyer is insisting on a prenup.
Except in a handful of states, the details of the agreement will be dictated by the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act. It represents a set of guidelines, first drawn up in 1983, meant to give some standardization to the laws surrounding prenuptial agreements.
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finance a la shmoop. what is an LLC? LLC no that's not a rapper, that's a limited
liability company or look as professionals in the business pronounce
it. well why do you want one? because limiting your liability is a [man explains]
good thing if you're the one potentially liable for that stooge who slips on a
banana peel in your lobby waiting area and then Sue's you and wins. if you start
building your own company as an individual and not as an LLC and you get
sued for whatever, and you lose well you could lose everything you own.
that is the lawyers will come after your house your car your poodle your signed
Mila Kunis photograph collection, and legally well they'll be entitled to take
all of it. if you have existed under the legal structure of an LLC however, well [legal structures pictured]
the most you can be liable for is the assets of the business itself. yes
they'll take the company computer the remaining 17 months of lease on the
company building, and all your staplers and posted thingies but legally they
won't be able to go after your home your car your poodle or your autograph
collection. Mila is safe whew. so LLC's are a good thing they cost only a few
hundred bucks to set up these days, hi LegalZoom. so before you start up a lava
lamp company of your own think about setting up an LLC first. Mila and your [lava lamps in a row]
poodle gregory will thank you for it.
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