Registered Agent Services
Under the Texas Business Organizations Code, every business organization must have designated a person over 18 years of age with a physical “brick-and-mortar” address where the business organization can receive legal notices and be served with legal process. The person is your company's “Registered Agent,” and the physical address is your company's “Registered Office Address.”
The Tobin Firm will perform this service for your company for a very reasonable fee of only $100.00 per business organization per year. Some online companies charge up to 30% more for registered agent services. But they cannot provide the same level of service The Tobin Firm can provide.
Some new business owners ask whether they can be their company's Registered Agent and list their home or business address as the Registered Office Address. The answer is yes: any legally capable person over the age of 18 with a brick-and-mortar address can be a registered agent. But first ask yourself a few questions:
- Do you want to be served with the lawsuit in front of your employees or family members?
- Or would you prefer to have the suit served on The Tobin Firm, who can contact you about it privately and whose job it is to look out for your best interests?
- Do you want to risk having a default judgment taken against your company ?
- Or would you rather trust The Tobin Firm to make sure its address is up-to-date, and to contact you in plenty of time for you to answer the lawsuit?
- Do you want to risk having your business organization dissolved by the Secretary of State because a termination notice piled up with other bills and junk mail?
- Or would you rather receive an email from The Tobin Firm letting you know we have received an official notice from the Texas Comptroller, and advising you about what to do next?