Make the Move Without Losing Your Legal Standing
Relocating your LLC is more than an address change. If done wrong, it can dissolve your company, trigger unnecessary taxes, or create regulatory issues. Our process gives you a clean, compliant path to move your LLC with professional-grade precision.
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Check Eligibility
Before you risk anything, find out whether your LLC can move safely. I'll tell you if both states allow statutory domestication, and what to do if they don't.
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Follow a Clear Plan
I give you a state-specific roadmap that shows exactly what to do and when. Both states' laws included, so nothing is filed out of order or left undone.
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Avoid Penalties and Hassles
One wrong move can dissolve your LLC or create a tax nightmare. I protect you from hidden traps that can destroy continuity, trigger audits, or kill deals.
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Preserve Continuity
Your EIN, contracts, bank accounts, and licenses stay intact. I make sure your move doesn't erase your business history or reset your legal identity.
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Identify Filing Requirements
Moving an LLC isn't just paperwork. It's legal surgery. I map out every compliance step so you don't miss a single requirement or trigger costly rejections.
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Take the Other Path If You Need It
When one state doesn't allow domestication, the LLC can still move through a reorganization that reaches the same result. The analysis tells you which path applies.
Common LLC Relocation Pitfalls
Moving an LLC is a legal process, with specific documents filed in a specific order under two states' laws. Get it wrong and the traps are predictable. These are the ones I see most.
Dissolving the LLC Unnecessarily
Online formation companies often recommend dissolving the LLC and starting over, because they can't do a true domestication. That costs more, and it ends the company you built.
Getting the Filing Sequence Wrong
File in the wrong order and the LLC can cease to exist before the new state recognizes it. That gap is expensive to fix, if it can be fixed at all.
Improper Representations to State Agencies
Both states require a formal plan approving the move, and there is no universal form. Filing without proper authorization, or certifying an approval that doesn't exist, creates serious legal exposure.
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How the Move Works
Accepted in both states or your money back.
Get Your Analysis
Tell me where the LLC is formed and where it is going. The analysis arrives by email, written for your two states.
Get a Flat Quote
If the move is right for you, I quote the whole move before any work starts. Nothing along the way starts a meter.
I File It in the Right Order
Plan of conversion, approvals, and filings in both states, sequenced so there is never a day when neither state recognizes your LLC.
About Jeramie Fortenberry
I'm Jeramie Fortenberry, a business and tax attorney with more than twenty years of practice, centered on the structural events that decide what an owner keeps. Moving an LLC is one of them.
I built this service because straight answers about moving a company are hard to find. My goal is simple. Make the move clear, fast, and stress-free. No unnecessary upsells. No surprises. Here's how I work:
- A straight answer on whether your LLC can move, and how, in plain terms. The advice is never a setup for a bigger engagement.
- A free written analysis of your own facts before you spend a dollar.
- One flat fee per deal, quoted before work starts. Ask anything along the way without watching a clock.
- I work alongside the CPA, deal counsel, and advisors you already have. Your team stays in place.
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Questions Owners Ask
What is an LLC domestication or conversion?
Domestication and conversion are two names for the same thing. Each state's LLC law sets its own name and its own rules for it. Whatever it is called, it moves an existing LLC to a new home state as the same company, and both states have to allow it.
What does it mean to move an LLC to another state?
A real move changes the LLC's legal home from the old state to the new one while the LLC continues as the same company. It keeps its EIN, its contracts, its bank accounts, its licenses, and its business relationships. Nothing has to be re-signed or re-applied for because the company never stopped existing.
How do I move my LLC to a new state?
Without starting over, there are two ways. If both states allow statutory domestication, that is usually the fastest and cleanest option, because the LLC continues as the same legal entity. When one or both states do not allow it, the LLC can still be moved through a structured reorganization that reaches the same result. The analysis tells you which path your two states allow.
Why should I move my LLC at all?
Most owners move the LLC because they have relocated and now run the business from a different state. The law then usually requires the LLC to register and comply in the new state while still maintaining it in the old one. That means duplicate filings, extra fees, and more compliance risk every year. Moving the LLC ends the two-state problem.
Do I need to dissolve my LLC and start a new one?
No. Dissolving and starting over is almost never necessary, and it can cost you your EIN, contracts, banking relationships, licenses, and operating history. A properly executed move keeps the business intact. Many online formation companies suggest starting over because they cannot handle domestication or reorganization; there is a better way, and it preserves what you have already built.
How much does LLC domestication or conversion cost?
One flat fee for the whole move, quoted after your analysis and agreed before work starts. Nothing along the way starts a meter. Accepted in both states or your money back.
Don't Risk Losing Your LLC
You do not need to shut down your LLC and start a new one. There is a better way, and it preserves what you have already built.