{"id":1778,"date":"2020-07-06T12:25:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesslaw.handponist.com\/blog\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2023-11-28T13:41:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:41:59","slug":"llc-membership-and-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/llc-membership-and-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"LLC Membership and Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The limited liability company is a relatively new form of business entity, with most state statutes adopted in the 1990s. In just a few years, they overtook the corporation as the most common structure for new businesses.\u00a0 A reason for the LLC&#8217;s popularity is that the it combines some of the most desirable aspects of corporations with some of the most desirable aspects of partnerships, but that blending of characteristics can also be a source of confusion.\u00a0 For example, LLCs work much like partnerships when it comes to ownership rights, but people often incorrectly assume ownership that LLC interest is analogous to corporate stock and that LLC membership is analogous to being a corporate shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>The owners of corporations are called shareholders and their ownership rights are embodied in shares of stock, a form of intangible personal property comprising a bundle of rights, some economic and some non-economic.\u00a0 The principal economic right is the right to receive dividends (usually cash) from the corporation, and the principal non-economic right is the right to vote in an election of directors and other matters that may be submitted to a vote of the shareholders. Although there can be restrictions (typically set out in the company\u2019s articles of incorporation or bylaws, or a contract among shareholders or between a shareholder and the corporation), stock is generally transferable from one person to another. A person who acquires stock (thus becoming a shareholder) receives both sets of rights, economic (dividends) and non-economic (voting). It makes no difference how the person acquires the stock \u2013by purchase, by gift, by inheritance, as compensation to an employee, or by court order (in a divorce or otherwise); a person who owns stock holds both economic and non-economic rights.<\/p>\n<p>Limited liability companies also have economic and non-economic rights.\u00a0 The principal economic right is the right to receive distributions (usually cash) from the company, and the principal non-economic right is the right to participate in the management of the company\u2019s business and affairs. A crucial distinction between LLCs and corporations is that the economic and non-economic rights associated with LLCs are not bundled together in a single package the way those rights in a corporation are bundled together in stock.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/llc-membership-and-interest\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading LLC Membership and Interest\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The limited liability company is a relatively new form of business entity, with most state statutes adopted in the 1990s. 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