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Corporations
• Incorporate Your Business: A Legal
Guide to Forming a Corporation in
Your State, by Anthony Mancuso
(Nolo). Includes easy-to-read instruc-
tions on forming a corporation in any
state, with tips on unique tax benefits,
investment attraction, and more.
• How to Form Your Own California
Corporation, by Anthony Mancuso
(Nolo). Includes step-by-step instruc-
tions on how to incorporate a new or
already existing business in California.
The book comes complete with all
tear-out forms necessary, including
articles, bylaws, and stock certificates.
• Inc. Yourself, by Judith H. McQuown
(9th edition, Broadway Books). A
popular guide to the “maze of legal
and financial vagaries” of incorpo-
rating.
• How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation,
by Anthony Mancuso (Nolo). Applies
to all states. Explains all the legal
formalities involved in forming and
operating a tax-exempt nonprofit
corporation.
• Form Your Own Limited Liability
Company, by Anthony Mancuso
(Nolo). Provides the step-by-step
instructions and forms businesspeople
need to form an LLC. Includes how to
handle ongoing legal issues and tax
paperwork.Partnerships
• Form a Partnership: The Complete
Legal Guide, by Denis Clifford andRalph Warner (Nolo). The book
includes just about everything a small
business owner needs to know to
establish his or her own partnership.
The book also discusses limited
partnerships, but in less detail.
• Compatibility Breeds Success: How to
Manage Your Relationship with Your
Business Partner, by Marvin Snider
(Praeger Publishers). Deals with the
real issues of how to make a successful
business with a real person.
Legal Matters
• Legal Guide for Starting & Running a
Small Business, by Fred S. Steingold
(Nolo). A comprehensive guide to
making decisions about legal matters in
business. Includes tax-saving methods,
buying a franchise or existing business,
hiring and firing employees, and
resolving business disputes.
• J.K. Lasser’s Legal and Corporation
Forms for the Smaller Business, by
Arnold Goldstein (Editor), (Wiley). This
book comes with a disk that includes
many forms.
• Legal Research: How to Find & Under
stand the Law, by Stephen Elias and
Susan Levinkind (Nolo). A good book
on doing your own legal research.
• Everybody’s Guide to Small Claims
Court, by Ralph Warner (Nolo). Can
help you if you ever find yourself
holding a handful of bad checks. It’s
a guide on how to properly prepare
a small claims court case—which is
far more than half the battle. It also