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Welcome to Part 6 in a 12-part series entitled "12 Warning Signs You're Headed for a Lawsuit with Your Partner".  If you missed Parts 1-5, click here to get to our Real Estate Investor bLAWg where you can find those and any many other informative blog posts.  The...

Welcome to Part 5 in a 12-part series entitled "12 Warning Signs You're Headed for a Lawsuit with Your Partner".  If you missed Parts 1-4, click here to get to our Real Estate Investor bLAWg where you can find those and any many other informative blog posts.  The...

Welcome to Part 4 in a 12-part series entitled "12 Warning Signs You're Headed for a Lawsuit with Your Partner".  If you missed Parts 1-3, click here to get to our Real Estate Investor bLAWg where you can find those and any many other informative blog posts.  The...

Welcome to Part 3 in a 12-part series entitled "12 Warning Signs You're Headed for a Lawsuit with your Partner". The third warning sign is... #3: No Written Agreement Many of the partner disputes we have handled could have been completely avoided if the partners had a...

Welcome to Part 2 in a 12-part series entitled "12 Warning Signs You're Headed for a Lawsuit with your Partner".  If you missed Part 1, where I discussed what I believe is the #1 warning sign you're headed for a lawsuit with your partner (indeed, it may also signal...

So many of our clients do business with one or more partners.  We set up partnership agreements and we handle partner disputes (and, to my knowledge, we have never had a partnership that we set up end up in a dispute or litigation).  Litigation is expensive and...

A client recently asked me, “What happens to my frequent flyer miles when I die?” With so many credit card companies giving up to 100,000 bonus miles just for opening the credit card account and charging on the card (yes, that’s true!), and then giving away additional...

Before January 1, 2016, terminally ill patients in California needed to move to a state like Oregon to obtain a prescription to end their suffering and die with dignity. Now, an historic new California law, the End of Life Option Act, allows physicians to provide...

  You could save thousands of dollars by either forming your new entity or dissolving unused entities between now and December 31, 2015.         1. 1031 FLEXIBILITY. If you currently hold property in an LLC with one or more "partners", but want the flexibility, when...

Last Friday, the SEC finally, after 3 years, adopted final rules to permit companies to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding.  But, to me, the more interesting SEC news is what’s on the horizon (keep reading to the end of this article for more details). What...