Legal Question in Business Law in California

Re: As a minority partner of a LLC with a management contract, how do you begin

LLC agreements and management contracts are designed to be flexible to meet the expectations of the parties entering the agreements. Your rights are largely contained in the writings between the parties. The parties to the agreements generally follow the terms of the agreement. When the parties do not follow the terms of the agreement you may ask a judge to enforce your rights in the agreement. To determine your rights and to enforce your rights you generally need an attorney.

Re: As a minority partner of a LLC with a management contract, how do you begin

LLC operating agreements (probably the 'management contract' you refer to) can be designed quite flexibly under the Beverly-Killea Act authorizing LLCs in California. Hence, it's hard to say specifically what your boyfriend's rights are without reading the contract word for word.

However, some general observations are possible. First, his affected rights may fall into two categories (perhaps more): employment rights and ownership-participation rights. In other words, he may have both a right to employment and a right to make pro-rata additional investment to maintain his ownership. It depends upon the writings, and to some extent on the law.

Without hearing from the other side as to what justification or defense they can raise, and without seeing the contract(s), it's difficult to advise as to what kind of relief to seek in court, but if things are as you say without a good defense, your boyfriend probably has a remedy at law or in equity. People who are cheated in business can get redress if they have strong contracts and evidence to back up their claims of being wronged.