The City of Tulsa requires its own business license for certain trades, food and beverage sales, and short-term rentals, separately from anything the Oklahoma Secretary of State does when it registers an LLC. That layered system is exactly why so many new business owners ask...
Without a written operating agreement, an Oklahoma LLC with more than one member is governed entirely by the default rules built into the state's LLC statute, not by whatever informal understanding the owners actually had going in. Most Tulsa business owners find out what that...
Filing one $100 Articles of Organization with the Oklahoma Secretary of State does not automatically give a business owner permission to run two unrelated companies exactly however they'd like under that same entity, with no further paperwork or planning involved. Plenty of Tulsa entrepreneurs assume...
A Broken Arrow homeowner who dies with nothing but a will still has that will filed in Tulsa County District Court before a single bank account can pass to her children. That single fact surprises more Oklahoma families than almost anything else in estate planning,...
