Protect your Partnership With a Buy-Sell AgreementLearn more about these critical agreements that define value and buy-out procedures when one someone leaves a partnership.

ByMark J. Kohler

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Does your business have a plan if one of your partners dies, is disabled or wants to leave the business? It should. As soon as a business partnership has an intrinsic value, it's important to protect that value for each individual partner. A Buy-Sell Agreement can specify trigger events, voluntary or involuntary, and contain all the terms for a situation when a departing partner wants to protect his or her value in the partnership. Such agreements are additional to the business agreements of an LLC or Corporation.

For more information on business and tax planning for your partnership check out Mark's site athttp://www.markjkohler.com.

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Mark J. Kohler is a CPA, attorney, co-host of the podcastsMain Street BusinessandDirected IRA Podcastand a senior partner at both the law firm KKOS Lawyers and the accounting firm K&E CPAs. He is also a co-founder of Directed IRA Trust Company. He is the author ofThe Tax and Legal Playbook, 2nd EditionandThe Business Owner's Guide to Financial Freedom.

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