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how do you properly resign from a florida llc this is sam bryant i'm a business attorney with brian taylor law so if you have an llc or if you're a member of an llc and you want to resign there's an actual two-step process so in florida we call it an external process and the internal process the external process involves filing paperwork with the state of florida in uh in florida the division of corporations otherwise known as sunbiz is a database that keeps record of of every corporate filing for all florida companies whether they're llc's uh partnerships or corporations so that's the external process it's a form um it's called the resignation of a member or dissociation they're interchangeable names but that's the form you're going to be filling out but stunned is and it's a it's a pretty simple form you're going to be basically stating with the state the effective date of the resignation and the name of the company and the filings and you pay a small filing fee so once that's processed according to the state of florida you're officially disassociated or resigned from the loc but what you want to make sure that you do is you want to make sure that after the state processes that form that you just verify that your name is actually removed from the filings and this is important because you just want to make sure that the public doesn't see your name associated with the llc that you just resigned from even if you submit that form to the state sometimes there's a lag between when the form is processed and when the information is actually reflected on the public facing database so you want to make sure that's all taken care of that's the external side the internal side is you want to make sure that you give your company actual notice that you're resigning from the llc and according to what internal documents your company has or how it's governed uh which should be through an operating agreement you follow that process because sometimes a loc may consider a resignation wrongful and if a resignation is wrongful there could be potential penalties towards yourself um for in favor of the llc depending on certain circumstances so the internal process involves giving that notice and then accounting for any consequences of transferring your equity back to the llc whether that's some sort of monetary payout or just simply signing a document that reflects the transfer of your equity back to the llc again this really depends on what the operating agreement says with the company and if your llc doesn't have an operating agreement i would highly suggest that you speak to a florida business attorney that will enlighten you on what the default rules of florida will be to recognize your official resignation from the company so in a nutshell if you want to resign from an llc in florida it's a two-step process the internal and external process the external process involves filings with the state of florida on sundays and the internal process involves giving notice to the the llc of your resignation and taking care of any any loose ends in regards to your equity once those two steps are completed you'll have a peace of mind to know that you safely and reliably have disassociated and resigned from the llc which really means that you won't be held liable for any other company's actions as of the date of your resignation hope you find that information helpful if you need to speak to a business attorney in florida our information is in the description below and we also have plenty of other videos on the channel that can help grow or start a florida business
Thanks for your comment Dean Wachter, have a nice day.
- Winford Librandi, Staff Member
all right leave Phillips again I want to talk about how to get somebody out of a corporation or an LLC you may be business partners with somebody now you're not partners your LLC members together but your partner's okay and you want to go your separate ways you want to continue the LLC the other guy doesn't want to continue the LLC wants out that's fine get him out how do you get him out that's the question well you may have to buy him out and I'm not gonna go into the economics of it that's for you to figure out but legally what you're gonna do is you're gonna put them in an entry and now here again you've got to look at your operating agreement or your bylaws if it's corporation bylaws operating agreement LLC they may have something in written in there that says how you get rid of a member or if the guy wants to sell his stock basically selling these stockers membership interests you may be buying that the company may be buying it back it may go back into the Treasury but we're getting rid of this guy and the bylaws operating agreement may say then everybody has the first right of refusal if there's four of you in the LLC or the corporation Joe down here he may want to buy that guy's piece so that he has a bigger control so look at the operating room at the bylaws assuming that everything's cool doesn't say anything about it or whatever you're gonna have the guy sign the back of his membership certificate or his stock certificate you didn't ever issue a stock certificate or a membership certificate did you well okay let's make a minute entry in the books you remember you're supposed to have meetings take minutes that sort of stuff that's another YouTube but we make a minute entry that says Joe is returning his stock membership interest to the company and at that point if there is a certificate or stock certificate membership certificate you're gonna have him sign the back transfer it to the company or transfer it to you whatever you want and you're gonna cross out certificate number one or certificate number two whatever that one is and say transfer to company or transferred to you or whatever and that takes it off of the books now what you pay the guy is another issue the guy may have put money into it he didn't get anything out he just wants out fine he now has a tax loss okay because he gave you stocks to do Mia back got zero foreign so the economics of it are another issue but the how to get rid of him from a legal standpoint from the company standpoint pretty easy make the minute entry having signed the certificate cut off the certificate on the stock books now you may have to adjust the membership role or the the the owners role on the state books some states require that you list the members in the LLC fine you can make an amendment at that point to those state records just go to the state website unless you're in California they don't have a state website and get the amendment papers and take his name off of that list or if it's close to the annual then you wait for the state some states do some states don't you wait for the state to send out the request for the update of the information and you send it into this with your check for that year and pay him off so get his name off and if you're the one leaving you want your name off because you don't want to be liable for anything on those state records you want out so make sure that your name is off call up the state a month later and say is is Joe Blow me a member of this LLC if you if your recorded at the state records if you're recording you've got a problem because you haven't been out yet you're still on the records and you don't want to be on the records so check the records to if you're the one leaving that's pretty much about it as far as the legal aspects of taking a person off the role as a stockholder in a small company or an LLC
Thanks Broderick your participation is very much appreciated
- Winford Librandi
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