Legal Question in Business Law in New Jersey
Registered Agents
In a scenario in which a company disappears and can no longer be contacted for various things such as payment of taxes, can that company's registered agent be found liable? In other words, can the liability be transferred to the agent?
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Re: Registered Agents
An agent, registered or otherwise, does not share the liabilities of his principal.
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Re: Registered Agents
your question is only part of a problem that you have. to answer your question, no, not normally. in some cases, but I would need more information to answer that.
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