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DBA - DBA - Assumed Name - Assumed Business Name Certificate

Assumed Business Name
Trade Business Name
Ficticious Firm Name
DBA (doing business as)

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Registering Your DBA

Note that we can notarize, Apply, Register & Get , and if necessary publish a DBA in every state: California, New York, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, etc., as well as in any of the cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Chicago, Detroit, etc.  Note: Though our headquarters are close to the  Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura counties and Metropolitan areas in California, we have representatives and partners in every county and every state in the United States.

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Apply, Register & Get , Notarize, Publish, and Apply, Register & Get proof of Publication of Your DBA Statement, Certificate of Assumed Business Name, Ficticious Firm Name, Doing Business As, DBA in Alabama, Alaska,  Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,  Louisiana,  Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio Oklahoma,  Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,  Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

 All fees are included

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Our service fee includes Registering, (except Business Licence annual taxes)  notarization, and newspaper publication fees. 

In most states you will have the certificate available to present it to a banker to open a bank account in  1-8 business days - some state have slow procedures and may take 10-20 business days.

We are the nation’s premier online DBA legal document service.

For many years we’ve helped thousands of satisfied customers prepare their corporations and LLCs, DBAs doing business as, Business Licences and tax documents. In fact, a large part of our business comes from satisfied customers' referrals.

That's because FBNUSA, business licensing company  is much more than just a Registering service employing ordinary paralegals.  Though we are not a law firm nor we give legal advice, we employ legal document professionals to prepare and review your documents before they are Registered .

We’re a complete, thorough, and professional business legal  document formation service. From start to finish we complete the forms, notarize them, Apply, Register & Get them, legally publish them and Apply, Register & Get proof of publication.

We do the following: 

(1) We prepare the legal document.

(2) We send our agent to you to notarize your DBA (if required). 

(3) Then, we Apply, Register & Get , record, and Apply, Register & Get your assumed, trade, or DBA, DBA certificate with the appropriate government agency.

(4) If required, we will perform a local or state level business name search to see if your Assumed Business Name is available (in most cases we do the business name search anyway).

(5) We publish your Assumed Business Name for 4 weeks in a legal newspaper,  and

(6) We mail you the certified  copies so you can open a bank account.  In some cases, we may fax your or scan and email you the Registered , certified copies of your Assumed Business Name Registration Certificate.

(7) Finally, after the DBA statement form is notarized, Registered , mailed and legally published, we will Apply, Register & Get an officially, government certified copy of the proof of the dba certificate newspaper publication with appropriate government agency as required by law.

 In most States, regular registration Registering takes 4-8 business days (e.g., California), but in some states it may take 10 -20 business days because the government processing takes longer - it is not our service that takes longer.  Where it is permitted by the government, there is same day Registering for an extra fee - add about $200 to regular price.

If you Apply, Register & Get the dba yourself

DBA Registering Fees

Note that if you Apply, Register & Get the dba yourself   in addition to the Registering fee, you need to pay a newspaper to publish the dba for 4 weeks ( about $80)

Fees for Registering a DBA statement in Los Angeles County more than doubled on June - 2004. 

The fee was raised to cover  the cost of processing the applications.  The Registering of the dba helps individuals  open bank accounts.

Here are the fees for other counties:

County of San Francisco charges $38 plus you need to publish the certificate for four weeks (add about $80)

Riverside County

Ventura $53, and

Alameda and San Bernardino

Orange County charges

Sacramento

San Diego  

 

What is a DBA or Assumed Business Name ?

First, a Company, or Assumed Business Name Certificate, or  DBA / D.B.A.  Doing Business As Statement is the same as a DBA Statement, an Assumed Business Name Certificate, and a Ficticious Firm Name.  The term is sometimes misspelled: fictious, ficticous, ficticious, etc.  All of these business, or Assumed Business Name s are just business name certificates / statements that must be Registered if the business owner (individual, partnership, corporation) is doing business in a name other than  its own legal name.

What is the General DBA Law?

Registration or Registering of a Trade / Assumed Business Name.

In general, you are required by law to notarize (some states) Apply, Register & Get (Apply, Register & Get ) and publish (in some states) a DBA statement, (otherwise called a Assumed Business Name Certificate,  DBA Doing Business As Statement, an Assumed Business Name Certificate, or a Ficticious Firm Name)  if the business name is a name that is different from the name of the proprietor, partnership or corporation doing business with that name. 

Example 1: You are Boss Gorge doing business under the Assumed Business Name "Get all the Oil" - you need to Apply, Register & Get the DBA Assumed Business Name "Get all the Oil".  Example 2: You are Holly Burton Corp, doing business under the Assumed Business Name Robem & Cheetem - you need to Apply, Register & Get the DBA assumed name "Robem & Cheetem" under the corporation.  In addition, if the business name includes the name of the owner and implies additional owners (for example: "Dick Chen & Associates Fly-By-Nite logistics",) you are required to Apply, Register & Get a DBA as "Dick Chen & Associates Fly-By-Nite logistics". 

Benefits of Registering your DBA:

  1. Can use the Courts to bring a lawsuit under the business name. You can enforce any contract that you sign under a registered name.  

  2. Can open a bank account in the name of the business -  banks require that you show proof of business name registration.

  3. May prevent others from using your business name. In some states Registering creates a rebuttable presumption that you have rights to that name ( but you probably need a trade mark to protect the name.  However, in general, you do acquire some rights to the business name associated with a specific product or service that you provide using the business name in the region that you provide the service or sell your product. More DBA Information

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5 Reasons to Choose Our Service

DBA Name Registering

  1. If Required, We Notarize, Apply, Register & Get and Publish you DBA

  2. Service takes an average of  3-8 business days (most states - for some states it may take a few more days).  

  3. Legal documents are reviewed by a legal document professional (but note: this is not legal advice)

  4. We have been in the business for years

  5. We Apply, Register & Get All the Documents You Need to Start Your Business