Legal Separation

Categories: Incorporation

Divorce. It's never pretty. At least not as pretty as the new girlfriend.

When it happens, usually there's the day he or she moves out. At that time, a legal snapshot is taken of the combined partnership's assets, and it is from that launchpad that the lawyers go to work, trying to create conflicts so that they can bill as many hours as possible to the fighting couple.

What? The lawyers are capitalists just like everyone else. And yeah, yeah...lawyers can twist ethical arguments to run any way they want. They're trained to do so, in fact.

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finance a la shmoop. what is a partnership? a marriage. joint ownership

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machine. well a partnership is just the merging

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of two individuals in doing a given business deal or setting up a business

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structure. if both are owners then both are liable for you know bad things

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should they happen. partnerships carry a lot of financial danger if one partner

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goes off the rails and decides to commit fraud in the name of the company or that

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evil partner enters into a stupid company bankrupting contract, well then [bad contract sold to unsuspecting victim]

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both parties pay for it. the innocent partner pays just as much in the form of

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whatever financial damages befall the partnership as the evil one, and

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partnership liabilities include personal assets if the partnership is structured

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like a general partnership with limited partners having no personal liability so [ liability structures defined]

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for all the good that a partnership can have it can get bad and ugly so you got

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to enter partnerships carefully. spend lots of dough on lawyers before you set

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it up so you don't have to after. [money exchanged for partnership contract ]

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