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General Business Fictitious Trade Name , Business Fictitious Trade Name Law

  • Filing of a Business Fictitious Trade Name Business Fictitious Trade Name is required for all business types  - including eBay, Online and home businesses  - State Law requires registering of a Business Fictitious Trade Name  if  Business Fictitious Trade Name is not the owner's own personal or Legal name.

     (I.e., personal name being the first and last name for individuals and the legal corporate name for corporations)). 

    Note that alternatively you can file a corporation to register your business name if the Business Fictitious Trade Name and the  corporation name are exactly the same.

     

    • Recommended: Most small business advisors recommend that you file a Doing Business As (Business Fictitious Trade Name ) business name instead of using your first and last name to do business. 

    • To whose name would you rather write a check to?  A business or an individual. 

    • Obviously, you would prefer to write a check or pay a registered business instead of paying an individual.

    • Can you imagine Microsoft having the Business Fictitious Trade Name "Bill Gates Software".

 

General Business Fictitious Trade Name , Business Fictitious Trade Name Law

 Also called Assumed, Business Fictitious Trade Name , Trade Name, or Firm Name Certificate

 

In general, in most states, you are required by law to

  • notarize,

  • file, and

  • publISH

  • a Business Fictitious Trade Name statement, if your Business Fictitious Trade Name is not your own personal legal name (e.g., John Doe).

  • Note that some states do not require notarization, and others do not require publication.  It varies.

In other words, if your Business Fictitious Trade Name is  a  "doing business as" (d/b/a) (e.g., "John's Plumbing"), then you are required by law to file / record  & publish in a legally adjudicated newspaper for four consecutive weeks a Business Fictitious Trade Name statement.

Then, a month later you must also file a proof of publication.

The purpose of the Name Statement (also called a "Business Fictitious Trade Name " for "doing business as") is the protection of the public by identifying the person doing business under a Business Fictitious Trade Name .

 

 

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