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Business, Family & Divorce
How is child support calculated if I’m a business owner?
All the money that you take from the company for personal use is considered income for the purposes of determining child support. What is tricky is that when people think of their income, they think of the amount showing on their T1 income tax return. For people who own their own businesses, this is not always the case.
September 25, 2017
Business
Are you Certain Who you are Dealing with in your Business Transaction?
Have you entered into a distribution agreement for your product and/or service with an individual that decides to assign that […]
December 14, 2015
Business, Other, Real Estate
THERE’S NOTHING IN WRITING!!!!!
Every now and then I am approached by someone wanting to know if they are in any sort of obligation […]
July 2, 2015
Business
Unanimous Shareholders Agreements and Shotgun Clauses
If you have, or are planning to create, a corporation with more than one shareholder then it is a good […]
June 12, 2015
Business
Shareholder Divorces: The Rights of Minority Shareholders
Family owned businesses are often operated as closely held corporations in order to obtain various tax and liability advantages. Unfortunately, […]
June 12, 2015
Business
The New Anti-Spam Law and Your Business: What You Need to Know
Electronic communication has not only become an essential part of how we do business, but of how we get business. […]
June 20, 2014
Business
Unanimous Shareholders Agreements: Getting What You Want by Stephen C. Mogdan
Many small businesses are operated through a corporation. The smallest of these will be single-person corporations, where one person is […]
August 26, 2013
Business
Buying a Franchise: Some Essentials by Stephen C. Mogdan
You've found a franchise that seems like a hot business. You've talked to the Franchisor, and they want to take […]
July 9, 2013
Business
Purchase and Sale of a Business
There are two basic transaction structures for acquiring a business – (1) the Share Purchase and (2) the Asset Purchase. […]
January 12, 2013