Legal Forms

Prepare an Assignment of Interest in Estate with this template form for the USA.

Appoint someone you trust to take temporary custody of your child with this USA Authorization Form for Temporary Guardianship of a Minor Child.

• An authorization of this type would be granted if the parent is unable to care for the child due to illness, injury, incarceration or other circumstances.
• Complete the form with the child's personal and medical information, your personal information, and information about the temporary guardian.
• The Authorization and Consent form gives the temporary guardian the power to make decisions about the child's education, recreational and religious activities, and obtain emergency medical treatment for the child.
• The temporary guardian must consent to the appointment, and the form must be acknowledged in front of a notary public.
• NOTE: some States, such as Colorado, have their own forms.

Keep your assets out of probate when you die with this USA Declaration of Nominee Trust.

• A nominee trust is a trust created for the purpose of holding property on behalf of beneficiaries whose identities are kept secret.
• The trustee's sole duty is to hold the trust property and pay over any trust income to the beneficiaries. The trustee has no power to deal with the property except as directed by the beneficiaries.
• Unless terminated earlier by one or more beneficiaries, the trust will automatically terminate twenty years after its effective date.
• The trust will not be administered by any court.
• Any termination of the trust, amendments to the Trust Declaration, and any changes in trustees must be recorded in the county records.

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Set up a Deferred Compensation Plan for outside directors with this downloadable template for USA companies.

• The plan is only for directors who are not employees of the company or any of its subsidiaries.
• The Plan allows the non-employee directors to defer receipt of all compensation which would otherwise be paid to them for acting as a director, for income tax purposes.
• A participant in the Plan can elect to have the deferred compensation invested in shares of the company's common stock or let it accumulate and earn interest.

You can customize this Deferred Compensation Plan to fit your company's needs and specifications. Download it today.

Make a gift of real or personal property to a minor with this free Delivery & Receipt of Gift form under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

• The UGMA has been enacted in several states to allow assets to be held on behalf of a minor without the need to set up a special trust fund.
• The property is transferred to a custodian who will hold the property on behalf of the minor child.
• Download the form, fill it in and print it, ready for your signature.

The USA Delivery & Receipt of Gift to Minor form is a free download in MS Word format.

Give employees a chance to participate in the company under this payroll-deduction based Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Employees are given the opportunity to acquire a proprietary interest in the company by purchasing shares through automatic payroll deductions.
• The employee may reduce or increase the amount of payroll deduction at certain times.
• The employee will be granted a separate purchase right for each offering period, which will be automatically exercised in installments on each successive purchase date within the offering period.
• The employee may terminate outstanding purchase rights at any time prior to the next scheduled purchase date.
• Shares may not be transferred until they have been held at least one year.

This payroll-deduction based employee stock purchase plan is for U.S. companies and is prepared in accordance with United States laws and regulations.

Set up an Equity-Based Long Term Incentive Plan in your company with this downloadable template for U.S. companies.

• The Plan was created pursuant to United States securities legislation.
• The Plan allows a company's key employees and officers to participate in the company as stockholders.
• A good incentive plan like this one improves the company's ability to attract and retain top-notch dedicated key employees.
• Awards under the Plan might take the form of stock options, stock appreciation rights, deferred stock or restricted stock, or any combination of these.

Get your copy of the USA Equity Based Long Term Incentive Plan and start rewarding your key people.

This Partnership Agreement Template for U.S. partnerships restricts the partners' right to retire from the partnership to the end of any fiscal year.

• Net profits will be divided equally and net losses will be borne equally by the partners.
• Partners will not receive any salary for services rendered, but the partners may from time to time withdraw any credit balance in their respective income accounts.
• The partners will have equal rights in managing the business, and each shall devote their entire time to the conduct of partnership business.
• Upon the death of a partner, the surviving partner has the right to either purchase the decedent's interest or terminate the partnership.

The USA Fiscal Year Partnership Agreement is a digital legal template that can be used anywhere throughout the United States.

Set up a joint venture between two or more companies in the United States with this Joint Venture Agreement template.

• The Agreement does not set up a partnership between the parties.
• The template contains provisions for management by a managing co-venturer, or joint management by all the parties.
• The co-venturers may have interests in other businesses outside of the joint venture. The template includes an optional non-competition provision.
• The co-venturers indemnify each other against liability.

To purchase the USA Joint Venture Agreement, add it to your cart and go through the secure checkout. Then download the form and you're ready to get started!

Draw up a Partnership Agreement between U.S. lawyers with this downloadable template.

• The partners will not receive a salary for services rendered. Instead they will each have a drawing account from which they can make withdrawals in amounts agreed upon between the partners. Withdrawals will be charged against a partner's respective share of the profits.
• All partners will participate in management, and no partner will engage in any other business without the consent of the other partners.
• If a partner withdraws, he/she is entitled to take all files pertaining to clients whose affairs he/she has personally conducted, unless the client requests otherwise.
• Procedure for determining the value of a partner's interest upon death, retirement or withdrawal from the partnership.
• The surviving partners have the right to continue using the name of a deceased or retired partner in the partnership name.

The USA Lawyer Partnership Agreement is a digital legal form in MS Word format. Buy, download, edit to fit your requirements. Then print and sign.