A primary goal of estate planning is to ensure that your wishes are carried out after you’re gone. So, it’s important to design your estate plan to withstand potential will contests or other challenges down the road. The most common grounds for contesting a will are undue influence or lack of testamentary capacity. Other grounds include…

The ultimate indicator of how well a company and its management are performing is how much the company is worth in the marketplace. Any performance measurement or benchmarking system should include fair market value as one of its primary metrics. With public companies, it’s easy to monitor this metric by tracking share prices and market…

Shareholder disputes are common occurrences in today’s complex business world. These disputes can often be divisive, long-lasting and expensive. They can arise in almost any privately owned business, sometimes without warning. Here are come common types of lawsuits minority shareholders may file against controlling shareholders: Dissenters Rights Actions State law may give corporate shareholders the right to…