Keep your corporate status--and avoid personal liability Incorporating your business is an important first step in obtaining limited liability status. To keep that status, you must observe a number of legal formalities, including holding and documenting shareholder and director meetings. Meeting minutes form the primary paper trail of a corporation's legal life--and The Corporate Records Handbook provides all the instructions and forms you need to prepare them. Minutes forms include: - Notice of Meeting - Shareholder Proxy - Minutes of Annual Shareholders' Meeting - Minutes of Annual Directors' Meeting - Waiver of Notice of Meeting, and - Written Consent to Action Without Meeting. You'll also find more than 75 additional resolutions which let you: - elect S corporation tax status - borrow or lend money - adopt pension and profit-sharing plans - authorize bank loans - authorize a corporate line of credit - set up employee benefit plans - purchase or lease a company car - amend articles and bylaws - and more! This book has downloadable interactive forms.

Author Biography

Anthony Mancuso is a corporations and limited liability company expert. He graduated from Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, is a member of the California State Bar, and studied advanced business taxation at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He has also been a consultant for Silicon Valley EDA (Electronic Design Automation) companies. He is the author of several Nolo books on forming and operating corporations (both profit and nonprofit) and limited liability companies. His titles include Incorporate Your Business, How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation (national and California editions), Form Your Own Limited Liability Company, The Corporate Records Handbook, and LLC or Corporation? His books have shown over a quarter of a million businesses and organizations how to form a corporation or LLC.