Archive for November, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving
From all of us at BrewerLong, we hope you and your family have a very happy Thanksgiving. We are thankful for the opportunity to help people with problems. We are thankful for the reason to interact with smart, caring professionals. We are thankful for families that are healthy and supportive. We are thankful to be [...]
Helpful Websites
Here are some websites that I find helpful: www.epodunk.com. This is a great resource for general information about US counties, cities, and other communities. Usually, I use this website to easily confirm the county in which a city is located. www.law.cornell.edu. This is a portal to Federal and state statutes, administrative rules, and other legal [...]
10 Things About Owners Agreements
1. Unless You’re Microsoft, You Need an Owners Agreement. Having an Owners Agreement is important for every non-public company with more than one owner. Owners Agreements go by different names—Shareholders Agreement or Buy-Sell Agreement for a corporation, Operating Agreement for an LLC, Partnership Agreement for a partnership. Whatever it’s called, it’s essential. 2. “We Already Have Bylaws.” [...]
10 Things About Estate Planning
1. You Already Have an Estate Plan, But Do You Know What It Says? Your state legislature has created an estate plan for every resident, called Laws of Intestacy, but it rarely meets the needs or desires of every person. Especially if you have a “non-traditional” family (and who doesn’t these days?), the default estate plan [...]
Purchase of Florida Real Estate Owning Company Requires Property Appraiser Notification
Any time a company is bought and sold, there are dozens of little details that are easily overlooked. A few of those details don’t matter too much at the end of day, but most of those details are important. As an example of the important variety, the local property appraiser must be notified when a company [...]
Divorced? Update Your Life Insurance Beneficiaries
If you are divorced or divorcing, it is vitally important that you review and update the designated beneficiaries for your life insurance (as well as other accounts). Failing to do so may have drastic consequences for your loved ones. This week, I spoke to a woman who just lost her husband and then found out [...]
Don’t Throw Away Your Family Trust Just Yet
One of the common features of proposals to reform the Federal estate tax is the idea that married couples should not need complicated estate planning, involving one or more trusts, to make full use of their estate tax exemption amounts. But Marc S. Bekerman points out that “exemption portability” may not eliminate common needs for trusts and [...]
Who Owns Your Website–You or the Developer?
Just because you pay someone to create a website for your business doesn’t mean that you own it. Whenever you pay another person to develop a creative work–like a website–you must insist on having a written “work made for hire” contract. Otherwise, you may not own the copyright for the work. Under Federal copyright law, [...]