Correction

By IncNow | Published October 19, 2013

A certificate filed with the Secretary of State to indicate that a mistake was made when an earlier document was filed. A Certificate of Correction cannot be backdated, but it does reference an earlier filed document. Many things can be “fixed” by a Certificate of Correction, for example the certificate setting forth the wrong amount of stock, the wrong name of the company, the wrong manager, or almost anything else previously filed as a Certificate of Formation/Incorporation or amendments thereto. This should be distinguished from a Certificate of Amendment, which can “fix things” from that point forward, but a Certificate of Amendment does not state the reason for the change was an earlier mistake.

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