How to Incorporate and Start a Business in Maryland covers every essential topic you need to understand to start a business right. Protect yourself and your business with the expert knowledge provided in this book. The easy-to-follow steps and worksheets guide you through every aspect of incorporating and starting your own business.

Maryland Corporation Law is the only current treatise covering all aspects of Maryland corporation law and practice, providing authoritative guidance to the statutes, legislative history, and relevant cases, and is frequently cited by judges and lawyers as the authoritative source in the field. More New York Stock Exchange-listed companies are formed under Maryland law than any state except Delaware. This authoritative volume gives subscribers a thorough background to the Maryland General Corporation Law (The 'MGCL'), including: formation of a corporation; the conduct of a corporation's internal affairs; liability and protection of directors and officers;voting and other rights of stockholders; mergers; charter amendments; and dissolution of a corporation. Maryland Corporation Law also discusses derivative actions, corporate opportunity, successor liability and takeover defenses. In addition, there is a separate chapter devoted exclusively to Maryland real estate investment trusts. Maryland Corporation Law also provides the complete up-to-date text of the MGCL and related statutes, and includes a forms section, prepared by the author, containing many Maryland specific forms. Recent additions include topics such as: Corporations - Distributions, Mergers, Appraisal Rights and Articles Supplementary Investment Companies - Series Funds, Transfer of Assets Directors and Stockholders - Meetings, Notices, and Consents A newly added chapter on Maryland business trusts Recent cases decided by the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States District Court for the District of Maryland

This book explores the 'clean hands' doctrine, a safety valve in the legal system designed to correct injustice.

GET WEIRD! “Best Travel Series of The Year 2006”—Booklist What’s weird around here? Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman asked themselves this question for years. And it’s precisely this offbeat sense of curiosity that led the duo to create Weird N.J. and the successful series that followed. The NOT shockingly result? EveryWeirdbook has become a best seller in its region! ((Series Sales Points)) This best-selling series has sold more than one million copies…and counting Thirty volumes of the Weird series have been published to great success since Weird New Jersey's 2003 debut

"Provides background information and step-by-step instructions that nonprofits need to apply for federal 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status and qualify as a public charity with the IRS. The 10th edition covers recent changes in the law"--Provided by publisher.

Renowned Maryland trusts & estates attorney, Aryeh Guttenberg, has drawn from his extensive experience to bring you strategies & forms for virtually every situation you will encounter. His insightful commentary provides a thorough discussion & analysis of sophisticated strategies & many key areas of estate planning, including explanations of The Maryland Law of Wills, Organizational Checklist of Wills, The Unified Gift & Transfer Tax System, Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, Guide to Selection of Personal Representative, Trustees & Guardians, Formula Clauses for Wills & Trusts, Special Right of Election in Maryland, Q DOTS, Power of Appointment, Types of Joint Ownership, Disclaimers & Uses of Dynasty Trusts. This book gives you instant access to forms for virtually every situation that are adaptable for your clients. From preparing simple wills to complex wills & trusts, you will find forms both in the book & on the companion CD-ROM. The forms are arranged as modular templates so that you can customize your document creation with the easily interchangeable provisions & even create your own library of wills & trusts.