Form Your Own Limited Liability Company: Create An LLC in Any State

Anthony Mancuso

Aug 2021 · Nolo

About this ebook

Make your business an LLC

Structuring your business as an LLC can bring important advantages: It lets you limit your personal liability for business debts and simplify your taxes. Here, you’ll find the key legal forms you need to create a single-member or multi-member LLC in your state, including:

• LLC articles of organization
• Operating agreement for member-managed LLC
• Operating agreement for manager-managed LLC
• LLC reservation of name letter, and
• Minutes of meeting form.

Form Your Own Limited Liability Companyhas easy-to-understand instructions, including how to create an operating agreement that covers how profits and losses are divided and major business decisions are made. You’ll also learn how to choose a unique LLC name that meets state and federal legal requirements and how to take care of ongoing legal and tax paperwork.

The 12th edition is completely revised to reflect the latest state and federal laws, including an overview of the CARES act and other resources for businesses impacted by COVID-19.

With Downloadable Forms Download an operating agreement and other forms for your LLC, more details inside.

About the author

Anthony Mancuso is a corporations and limited liability company expert. A graduate of Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, Tony is an active member of the California State Bar. Tony writes books and software in the fields of corporate and LLC law and has studied advanced business taxation at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He also has been a consultant for Silicon Valley EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and other technology companies. He is currently employed at Google in Mountain View, California. Tony is the author of many Nolo books on forming and operating corporations (profit and nonprofit) and LLCs. Among his current books are The Corporate Records Handbook; How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation; Incorporate Your Business; Form Your Own Limited Liability Company; and LLC or Corporation? His books and software have shown over 500,000 businesses and organizations how to form and operate a corporation or an LLC. Tony is a licensed helicopter pilot and guitarist.