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Piercing the corporate veil

A court holding a company's owner personally liable for its debts, usually because the company wasn't run as separate from the owner.

The short answer, then the detailChecked September 2026

The detail

What it means in practice.

Limited liability is the default, but a court can set it aside where the company was a shell: no separate accounts, no operating agreement, no records, and an owner who treated it as a personal wallet. You keep the protection with the boring things: a bank account, an operating agreement, a record of distributions and up-to-date filings.

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