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Certificate of Formation

Delaware's name for the document that creates an LLC, the equivalent of Articles of Organization in other states.

The short answer, then the detailChecked September 2026

The detail

What it means in practice.

Delaware calls an LLC's founding document a Certificate of Formation. It costs $110 to file and names the company, its registered agent and the person signing it, not the owners. A corporation's equivalent is a Certificate of Incorporation.

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