Recent content by Ledrak

I've always required a physical mailing address for notifications regarding the contracts I enter to with other parties. However, now that I do all my contracts electronically through email, I'm wondering if I even need to include a physical mailing address anymore. Is the email address alone...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? SC Can I legally enforce a contract that I have my executives sign saying that they must give "X" number of weeks written notice if they intend to resign or pay monetary penalties and/or face legal action for any damages incurred to the company as...

I have a magazine with an office in the state of Florida. We are planning to sell ad space to clients from all over the US. I'm trying to find out if by operating in Florida I have to include Florida sales tax to the ad space we sell to clients in the magazine or not? As I understand it...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? FL We're preparing to sell ad space for an upcoming publication and I understand that it's necessary to have some sort of written agreement and policy in place with our clients (to protect ourselves). We're going to have them fill out an order...

I'd prefer to operate my business as a sole proprietorship and not have to deal with the state corporate/entity filings, fees, etc. I'm not concerned about tax benefits, in fact... the only benefit I can possibly see from having an official LLC state title attached to my business would be the...

I'm planing to hire a freelancer in Brazil as an independent contractor to do a job for me, and I want this person to sign a contract. Since they live in Brazil, I figured it wouldn't make much sense to add a clause for arbitration or governing law seeing as there's no way they're getting...

Retraction of rights What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NY I have a magazine and I recently sent someone interview questions via email for a particular article. After the person in questions sent their responses back, they then decided they didn't want what they said to be...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? FL I'm starting my own magazine, and I was curious about some possible issues that may arrive out of the business name. For the sake of anonymity, let's just say that my subject matter is about cars. So I wanted to name the magazine "Auto...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Long story short... while I was working down in S. America last year, I had a 1 night stand with a local girl there. She just recently contacted me via email, saying that she's now 9 months pregnant with "my" child and wants me to take a...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? New York I was planning to do some promotional stuff out in public and hand out some flyers to promote one of my businesses, and I wanted to know if I would run into obcenity (or some other legal) problems if there was nudity shown on the flyer?

Is it necessary for the photographer/producer to sign a release (in addition to the model) where there is no bilateral agreement and the model is simply signing away ownership and waiving her rights?

What is the name of your state? SC I normally have translations of my releases in different languages cause I often work with people who don't speak English (or speak limited English). Problem is I had to make a new release for a specific project I'm working on and only have an English version...

What is the name of your state? SC I have a corporation (I'm the sole owner) that I listed when I filed chapt 7. At that time it was non-operational with zero assets in it.... and still is. Now I want to start putting money in the business so that I can get the business running as a way for me...

What is the name of your state? SC I filed chapt 7 about 2 weeks ago. I have one cc that is in good standing with very little charged on it that I would like to keep. Do I need to discuss reaffirming this debt with the cc company before or after my meeting with the trustee?

What is the name of your state? SC If I release a film that shows somebody shooting heroine or snorting a few lines of cocaine in it... could I as the producer, or the person actually depicted in the scene potentially be prosecuted for drug possession or anything of the sort? This may sound...