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Two members, equal votes, and a decision the company cannot avoid. Florida’s LLC statute supplies three exits: judicial dissolution, a court-supervised buyout, and the deadlock provision in the operating agreement. Grounds for Dissolution A member or manager may ask...
Since July 1, 2025, Florida employers have had two statutory paths for noncompetes. Section 542.335, Florida Statutes, still governs most restrictive covenants. The Florida CHOICE Act, sections 542.41 through 542.45, adds a second path for higher earners, with...
Clubs organized for pleasure and recreation can qualify for federal exemption under section 501(c)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code. The exemption works very differently from charitable status. What Qualifies Section 501(c)(7) covers clubs organized for pleasure,...
An IRS determination letter recognizes a charity’s federal tax exemption. It does not register the charity to solicit in Florida, and it does not give donors the paperwork they need to deduct a gift. Five steps close the gap. Register Before Soliciting Unless an...
As a business owner, you may want your family to maintain some stability if something happens to you. But if you own part of a Florida limited liability company (LLC), passing on your share does not always mean passing on your role in running the business. Florida law...
For as long as Florida has had a construction industry, a general contractor who paid a subcontractor late was facing a contract problem. Interest, a lien on the owner's property, an uncomfortable call, eventually a lawsuit. As of July 1, 2026, the same late payment...
Finding the right outside counsel to provide in-house counsel services is about more than just legal experience. The best external attorneys function as seamless extensions of your team, understanding your business as intimately as any in-house advisor. The following...
The package looks convincing. A certificate of church status, a set of bylaws, an EIN letter from the IRS, and an assurance that the organization is now exempt and owes the government nothing further. Founders who buy these packages usually discover the problem during...
Accountants and wealth advisors see problems before lawyers do. You are in the records every quarter. You see the aging receivable, the missed filing, the entity that never quite got cleaned up, the transfer that happened without documentation. By the time the matter...
Most writing about Florida construction liens addresses a contractor with one unpaid job. That is not the problem a credit manager at a building material supplier actually has. The problem is thirty or eighty open jobs, each with its own first furnishing date, its own...