Who Writes This

The name at the bottom of the pages

Jenna Hale, which is a pen name. The same one sits on the cover of a book for teenagers about starting a business, and that book is the only reason this site exists at all.

I pick what to cover, read the source documents, and write every word. Nobody else works here.

The sentence that matters more than my name

I am a writer. I am not a lawyer, not an accountant and not a tax adviser.

That goes near the top on purpose. Look at what this site is about. Law and tax are the two subjects where anyone can sound qualified just by writing in a serious enough tone, and where you have no way at all to check.

So here is the check, and it is short. There is nothing to check. No degree, no licence, no letters after my name. None of that shows up further down this page either.

What I do instead is open the actual document, write down what it says, and print the real wording next to mine so you can hold the two side by side. That is a much smaller claim than the pages you were reading before you got here. It is also the only kind you can test.

I raised two sons through their teenage years. They are in their twenties now.

That is the whole of it, and it is worth being exact about what it buys. It means I have watched a teenager work out what to charge, and get it wrong, and get it right. It does not mean I know what the rule is in your state, and no amount of it would.

So this site does not run on me knowing things. It runs on me opening the actual page, printing what it says, and telling you where I got it. If I ever seem sure about something and there is no source next to it, that is a mistake and you should tell me.

Why the site is here

Search any of these questions yourself and look at what comes back.

Three of the biggest pages on whether someone under 18 can start a company all name the same five states. Two of those states are wrong. One of the laws was thrown out in 2018. The other one never said what they claim it says. None of the three shows you a law at all.

That is the gap in one example. The facts are public. They are free. They are sitting on government websites right now. The only reason you cannot use them is that every page explaining them was written for an adult with a lawyer.

So this site is the same facts, in words you can read on a phone, with the official wording printed beside them.

Who pays for it

Nobody does. There are no ads here, no sponsor, and no company that sells companies, courses or software has any say in a single line of it.

One thing is worth weighing, and it is not tucked away. I wrote a book about this, and a few pages here link to it. The book and the site come from the same hands.

The rules on that live on the book page. The main one: any page that tells you not to buy something carries no book link on it anywhere.

When it is wrong

It will be, sometimes. States rewrite rules. Apps change their terms and announce nothing.

If a page here has gone stale, or is just plain wrong, send it in. It gets fixed, and the date printed under that page's heading moves.

The way this site is built, and the list of claims it refuses to print, are written out on how this site works.