Legal Question in Business Law in California

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I would imagine that an attorney providing initial consultation will want to know a good deal about how the company was initially organized and then managed over the years. Did it prepare, adopt and follow bylaws? Has it held regular annual meetings at which minutes were kept? Have officers and directors been elected at properly-noticed meetings? Is there a shareholder register showing all shareholders' purchases and holdings? Also, has the corporation made the purchase payments for the land it acquired, or have individual stockholders made the payments from personal cash? Is the corporation current on its tax returns and payments? Have books been kept regularly and properly? And on and on.......... It is a lot easier to form a corporation than to run it properly.