Family Matters: Having Open Conversations About Your Estate Plan At the Law Office of Jason Carr, we understand how important it is to be transparent and honest when it comes to planning your estate. In…
Life Happens: Update Your Estate Plan
Life is full of unexpected turns. You fall in love, get married, start a family, or unfortunately, experience loss. While these are significant milestones, they also signal a crucial time to revisit your estate plan.…
What You Need to Know about Equipment Leases
Equipment leasing is an alternative to purchasing new equipment. Amid volatile interest rates and inflated equipment costs, more businesses are turning to leases as they look for ways to preserve cash while acquiring the equipment…
Can You Draft Your Own Contracts Using AI?
Written contracts are the backbone of business relationships. They outline the rights, obligations, and expectations between parties and provide a legal framework that ensures parties keep their promises. Absent written contracts, business relationships are less…
What to Do If Your Business Is in Distress
Increasing costs and rising interest rates have impacted many businesses. If your business is in crisis, there are steps you can take that could improve your business’s financial condition and help it successfully move forward.…
What to Bring to Your First Meeting with Your Business Lawyer
Many Americans dream of leaving their nine-to-five job to start their own business—and in recent years, more people than ever have been doing it. A record number of new business applications were filed in 2023,…
What Is an LLC Distribution?
A distribution from a limited liability company (LLC) is a payment of cash or property made by an LLC to the LLC’s owners, also known as members. Although state law sets forth certain default rules,…
Should You Convert Your Sole Proprietorship to an LLC?
When you are first starting a business, operating it as a sole proprietorship may make a lot of sense. Sole proprietorships are simple and inexpensive to set up and maintain: they are operated by a…
Choosing the Right Legal Entity for Your Business
Americans are hungry to start businesses, and they have more tools at their disposal than ever to tap into the United States’ free enterprise system. But starting a small business requires more than dreaming big.…
What You Need to Know about DBAs
Initial impressions matter in business. The first thing a customer often encounters when interacting with your company is its name. What you publicly call your business can differ from the name used in the organizational…