The RLLC (tm) Ritual

There is already a lot of ritual and ceremony associated with conventional marriage, so we have decided to devise ritual and ceremony for Relationship LLCs.

Once you meet someone(s) with sufficient assets and profit generating potential to warrant your interest, the first step to formal RLLC formation is Engagement via the Relationship LLC Domestic Partners Program (tm) (unless of course you want to proceed directly with formal LLC formation).  The Relationship LLC Domestic Partners Program is a program whereby you perform all of the steps required to create a LLC under your state's LLC law, except for the final step of filing formation papers with the state.  Relationship, L.L.C. will recognize your relationship as an LLC, your relationship join Relationship LLC's Synetergy Network (an affiliate program for people who do not want to manage their own Synetergistic web sites).

1. Each party should retain a representative (the representative may be a friend, not necessarily an attorney).

2. The Man’s representative advises the Woman's representative of the Man's desire to formally file the  LLC formation papers with the state.

3. The Woman has 10 days to respond with a yes or no. If the Woman agrees with formally filing the LLC papers with the state, she should instruct her representative to inform the man's representative that she concurs with filing formation papers with the state.

4. The Man should then organize a gathering of all of his friends, relatives and acquaintances and the Woman's friends, relatives and acquaintances. At this meeting the man's friends can present evidence why the Woman is a bad choice for partnering, and the Woman's friends can present evidence on why the man is a bad choice for partnering.

5. If the Man and Woman still elects to formally file with the state after hearing all the arguments, the Representatives then declare before everyone that the Man and Woman are joined together in a Relationship LLC and ensure that the formation papers are filed with the state.  Everyone is then expected to smile and pretend to like the idea of the man and woman joining together in Relationship LLC. A party should then result.

6. After the formation papers are filed with the state, an ad may be placed in a local newspaper advising the public of the formation of the LLC or a press release may be  made at PlanetRLLC.Net

RLLC Engagement

In the U.S., each state and the District of Columbia has created LLC law.  People are entitled to create LLC operating agreements and formation papers and file those papers with the state.  This is the formal LLC formation procedure setforth by the states. 

In order to determine if a Relationship LLC is right for you and your partner(s), you can follow all of your state's requirement for creating a LLC except for the final step of filing the formation papers with the state.  Relationship, L.L.C. will recognize your relationship as a LLC.   This  is Relationship LLC's  Domestic Partners Program (tm).   Your relationship may purchase a vanity email address to the Domestic Partners.Net domain name and join  Relationship LLC's Synetergy Network (tm), an affiliate program for people who do not want to manage their own Synetergistic web sites.  Of course, you may elect to create and manage your own free commercial web site making use of Synetergy (tm), most affiliate networks do not require that you be a registered business nor have a business tax id. 

It is our hope that, after experiencing what it is like to be in and manage a Relationship LLC, you will file your formation papers with your state within one year of the date you create your formation papers.  This program is a product of our religious beliefs and is intended to promote social order by (a) supporting conventional marriage as a non-discriminatory contract between one man and one woman; and (b) by providing persons who choose not to (or who are unable to) marry with a method of obtaining the same rights and benefits as married couples.

While there is debate among attorneys as to whether an LLC can really exist under common law, there was at least one argument holding that a LLC could possibly exist among the parties if the formation papers are not filed with the state:

"The LLC may exist among the members and perhaps by estoppel vis a vis third parties despite the absence of a filing, depending on the statute. See Ribstein & Keatinge on LLCs,section 4.15 There is a table of statutory provisions relating to this issue in appendix 4-1.

For comparisons between LLC and limited partnerships and corporations see Ribstein and Keatinge sections 4.17 and 4.18. I too have been puzzled by the difference regarding RULPA section 304 on erroneous partners. But the difference may not be that great in practice -- e.g., the assume to act provisions some LLC statutes, as in corporate statutes, may not reach inactive members, and the erroneous partner provision in RULPA is only a limited shield.

For limited partnership cases that may be applied to LLCs, see III Bromberg & Ribstein on Partnership section 12.04(b). These cases are of considerable assistance on the issue of whether the agreement is binding among the partners as distinguished from vis a vis third parties.

For a theoretical discussion of the above issues that antedated LLCs, see Ribstein, Limited Liability and Theories of the Corporation, 50 Md L Rev 80(1991)."   

A treatise discussion on personal liability for Defective Formation. Bishop and Kleinberger, Limited Liability Companies (Warren, Gorham and Lamont), para. 6.02[2]. I'm told the treatise is now available through Westlaw.

I think the proper analogy is to defective corporate formation. I don't think that limited partnership cases will be much help. Until very recently, the notion of a limited partnership inevitably involved someone contemplated as a general partner. That person was destined to be personally liable for the enterprise's debts in any event. No analogy exists with an LLC. Moreover, the Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act contains a byzantine provision protecting would-be limited partners in the event of defective formation. RULPA sec. 304 (person erroneously believing himself [or herself] limited partner). Again, no analog exists under LLC statutes.

Discussion from LNET-LLC

If a common law LLC is not recognized as having been formed by the state, the parties  who do not file the papers with the state would be personally liable for the acts of their business (which would just be an association of two or more people).  However, under the Relationship LLC Domestic Partners Program, the parties would have a signed document between them indicating their intent to pool certain assets and to keep all other assets separate, and there is very little liability associated with maintaining a free commercial web site making use of Synetergy (tm).

All new information and discussion relating to Relationship LLC's Domestic Partners Program will be posted at http://www.relationshipllc.com/engage.htm

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