An LLC operating agreement isn’t required in most states, but it’s an important legal document for a business. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. In Texas, an operating agreement isn’t required to form a ...

An LLC operating agreement is a legally binding document that outlines the LLC’s preferred operating, management and financial procedures. Its purpose is to guide the business’s internal operations ...

Last Thursday, with my colleague Amanda Nelson, I taught a two-hour webinar for 36 New Hampshire lawyers, sponsored by the New Hampshire Bar Association, on how to draft operating agreements for ...

LLC operating agreements frequently provide for indemnity to the LLC’s manager. This is consistent with the statutory default rule embodied by California Corporations Code section 17704.08(a), which ...

Do single-member LLCs need written operating agreements? The question may seem odd, since, by definition, single-member LLCs have only one member, who thus completely controls his or her (or its) LLC.