Contracts! What Constitutes as a Legal Agreement and How To Protect Oneself…

By Madame Margherite

A contract is a written or spoken agreement, especially one concerning employment, sales, or tenancy, that is intended to be enforceable by law.

What that means is, if you have a written or spoken agreement with a person, persons, or entity,  then the court and judicial system is obligated to protect you from the agreement being broken.

1-That doesn’t mean that all agreements are forced, an alternative is a settlement or revised renewal of the contract.
2- The purpose of a documented agreement, such as a written agreement, is to prove your entitlements in regards to the agreement itself. It is used to reflect on in future dealings sometimes, and called into question sometimes, but if there’s proof of it, disputes are easier to resolve.
3- For your Contract to be a Valid Contract, and ultimately recognized by a court it must contain certain elements.

1. The Date. This absolutely must be the date that all parties are engaging in, or in other words signing, the Contract. If it’s even 1 day earlier or later than the date it’s signed it can be ruled Void, which means the court decides it doesn’t recognize it at all.


2. The names of the entities entering the Contract, and preferably all entities addresses as well.


3. The terms of the agreement between all entities. Financial agreement terms would go here. They would specify a product, service, or tenancy in exchange for a dollar amount or something else of value set by the entities.


4. The signatures of all entities engaged in the agreement.

4- Contracts of anything Illegal are not recognized by the court.  
5- You must use blue or black ink only when signing a contract, green is used for temporary notes and red ink is used on sample contracts and makes a contract void.
6- If the contract has multiple pages you must initial all the pages. This is to protect you from signing a contract and then someone switching out pages, paragraphs, or points without signatures attached.
7- Anytime something is changed in a contract but the contract is not redrafted all parties must initial the changes to indicate the change is agreeable by all parties.
8- All entities entering a contract are entitled to a copy of the agreement engaged it.

If you follow these instructions your contracts and legal agreements will be very, very difficult to contest and you will remain protected.

Peace,

--Marg

Starting Your Own Business... Why You Should and How To Get Started...

By Madame Margherite

When deciding to form a business the first thing I like to do is look at all the types of businesses possible, and pick a formation that fits best for me based on what I want to do.

The types of businesses or corporations are:

Sole Proprietorship

Limited Liability Company

Cooperative

Corporation

Limited Partnership

Limited Liability Partnership

C Corporation

S Corporation

Non Profit Organizations

I now know to go straight to USA.gov and then navigate through the site until I have my answers.

Filing for an LLC

1-      How do I file for an LLC? This is the result: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/limited-liability-company-llc

2-      https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/choose-your-business-structure/limited-liability-company

You need:

A unique name
Articles of Organization: http://bpd.cdn.sos.ca.gov/llc/forms/llc-1.pdf
Announce in your local paper that you have formed your LLC
Get an EIN (Employee Identification Number) so that you can hire employees and pay taxes.

A C Corporation https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/choose-your-business-structure/corporation

A C Corporation has share holders and exchange money and assets.

They are subject to taxes regardless of whether or not they profit

They pay taxes and then split profit evenly among share holders

Each share holder has to pay taxes individually and as the corporation as a whole this is called double taxation

C Corps can operate internationally.

C Corps reduce individual taxes by paying most of their expenses out of corporate funds and pay themselves a very low salary.
C Corps are the types of businesses that qualify for bailouts because of the taxes they pay and because they can very easily become a business umbrella due to all the people with stakes in the corporation.

S Corporations https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/choose-your-business-structure/s-corporation

They are legal individual entities also owned by share holders.
Big successful S Corps can sell stock backed by their company which makes it easier to raise capital and profitable to sell if desired. However it’s the most complex and costly corporation to form. The tax forms are complex and have many legal requirements.
Best for people who intend to expand or become chains.
Also the type of Corporation that may qualify for bailouts.

Limited Partnerships: https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/choose-your-business-structure/partnership
Limited Partnerships are corporations that split responsibility between all the owners. They must be partnerships and cannot be owned by one person. This is useful when looking for a silent partner. One of you will be solely responsible for all the initial capital to form and run the business and one will be solely responsible for day to day operations. Neither partner will have incur responsibility for the other’s position. Partners of an LP spilt profits as described in the partnership agreement.

First you register your company based on your Partnership agreement, a customized contract between partners.

Then you choose a name. If you don’t agree on one in your partnership agreement then you will be assigned a name based on the last names of the partners.

Then finally you get permits that you might need.

Another benefit to an LP is that Partners can sell off fractions of their shares.

For questions either comment here or email me at ItsMarg@Hotmail.com
Peace,

--Marg

In Response to Today's Murders and Overall Police Brutality...

By Madame Margherite

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(Insert the name of the person the letter is written to here)

(Insert the title of the person the letter is written to here)

(Insert the name of the establishment: Board of Commissions here)

(Insert the Street Address of the person the letter is written to here)

(Insert the City, State and Zip Code of the person the letter is written to here

Dear Commissioner (Insert Commissioner’s name here)

My name is (Insert your name here), I’m a (Insert demographic, age, gender, race etc, here) residing in (Insert neighborhood or community here) as a (Insert profession here).

I’m writing to acquire answers to the following questions in regards to Police, Police Policy and Policing Methods within my community.

1-      How are you ensuring that the members of the departments, which you are responsible for, are being held responsible for their actions?

2-      What actions do you take, or would you take, in the event Abuse of Power took place within the departments you are responsible for?

3-      How are members of the departments you are responsible for, being trained to deescalate potentially dangerous situations, and carry out their duties without using violence?

4-      How are you evaluating the overall mental health, and individual mental health of the members of the departments you are responsible for, and how are you ensuring that conditions such as trauma, PTSD, depression, and social biases, for example, are not playing a part in the decision making of such department members both on duty and off duty?

5-      How are you combating bigotry and biases within the departments you are responsible for?

6-      How are you ensuring that solving victimizing crimes takes priority over victimless crimes and revenue generating tasks, within the departments you are responsible for?

It is important to me that the Mayor’s Office, Board of Commissions and Police Department not participate in Abuse of Power, and that such entities protect my community, as well as me, from Police Brutality.

I thank you for taking the time to read this letter, and in advance for responding with answers. In addition to providing me answers I request that you also prioritize the Prevention and Punishment of Police Brutality to the absolute best of your ability, and to the furthest of your reach.

Sincerely,

--(Insert printed name here)

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List of Contacts

Police Commissioners or Board of Police Commissioners are in charge of Police Departments

The Mayor Elects Police Commissioners and City Council confirms them.

In Los Angeles:

Mayor is Eric Garcetti

200 North Spring Street

Los Angeles, CA, 90012

(213) 978-0600

City Council District 13

200 North Spring Street, #450

Los Angeles, CA 90012

(213) 473-7013

Board of Police Commissioners

President Matthew M. Johnson

Vice President Steve Soboroff

Commissioner Sandra Figueroa-Villa

Commissioner Kathleen Kim

Commissioner Robert M Saltzman

100 West First Street, Suite 134

Los Angeles, CA, 90012

(213) 236-1400

And you can watch Police Commissioners Meetings Every Tuesday at 2pm on CityView Channel 35

In New York:

Mayor Bill de Blasio

City Hall

New York, NY, 10007

City Council

1757 Union Street

Brooklyn, New York, 11213

(718) 953-3097

Police Commissioner William J Bratton

Can only be messaged online

However…

Police Commissioner William J Bratton is involved with many businesses and ventures outside of the commission, among them is Bratton Technologies, which runs BlueLine, a global law enforcement professional social network.

BlueLine Grid

7250 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 320

Bethesda, MD, 20814

(917) 831-4332

His wife is TruTV analyst Rikki Klieman and her publicist is:

Suzanne Wickham

Senior Director of Publicity, Harperone

Harper Collins Publishers Inc.

10 East 53^rd Street,

New York, NY, 10022

For Minneapolis

Chief of Police Janeé Harteau
350 South 5 ^th Street
Room 130
Minneapolis, MN 55415-1389
612-673-3559
Fax: 612-673-2613

Mayor Betsy Hodges

Mayor's Office

350 S. 5th St., Room 331
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: (612) 673-2100

Minneapolis City Council
City Hall, Room 307
350 South Fifth Street
Minneapolis, MN 55415

612-673-2244

Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Mon. – Fri.