Peculiarities of Liability to Third Parties in Certain Forms of Family Entrepreneurship

Relevance. Currently in the Russian Federation there are no special contractual or organizational forms of family entrepreneurial activity. One of the problems to be solved in the formation of a legal model of family entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation is the definition of conditions for the onset and limitation of limits of liability to third parties for obligations related to the implementation of family business activities, including depending on the choice of organizational and legal forms of family business and the specifics of participation of individual family members in it, taking into account their role (management of activities, provision of property, personal labor, creative activity or other participation) and the presence or absence of the status of an individual entrepreneur.

The purpose of the research is to develop theoretical provisions aimed at creating a holistic scientific understanding of the features of responsibility to third parties in the implementation of family entrepreneurship.

Objectives: to identify the features of the responsibility of participants in family business activities to third parties when using various organizational and legal forms for its implementation.

Methodology. In carrying out this study, the dialectical-materialistic method, the systematic method, methods of analysis and synthesis, the formal-legal method were applied.

The results of the research are of a theoretical and applied nature and are aimed at improving the quality of legal regulation of civil legal relations.

The conclusions made in the article are of a debatable nature and are aimed at further research of the stated topics, the search for optimal solutions to problems arising in the implementation of family entrepreneurship. The article is a continuation of the author's scientific research on the subject under consideration.  

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