Dallas LLC Dispute Attorney
The Dallas LLC dispute attorneys at Roquemore Skierski PLLC represent members, managers, and companies in ownership conflicts across Dallas, Collin, Denton, and Tarrant Counties, from negotiated buyouts to litigated dissolutions. An LLC dispute rarely starts with one clear event. More often it builds: a member stops contributing but keeps drawing distributions; a manager makes decisions the company agreement never authorized; two fifty-fifty owners deadlock; a departing member leaves with the customer list. What each side can do about it turns less on how badly the relationship has broken down than on what the governing documents say, or fail to say.
These conflicts sit inside the firm’s partnership and shareholder dispute practice, and the same attorneys handle the fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and injunction claims an LLC dispute often brings with it.
What Texas Law Says When LLC Disputes Arise
Texas gives LLCs unusually broad contractual freedom, and that freedom decides how most member disputes come out. The company agreement governs the entity’s internal affairs, and the Texas Business Organizations Code supplies default rules only where the agreement is silent. Those defaults surprise people who assumed the law would protect them.
When the company agreement is silent, the default rules in Chapter 101 of the Texas Business Organizations Code take over, and they give a member no right to force the company to buy back their interest and no automatic right to expel a co-owner. Removal, buyout, and exit mechanics exist only where the company agreement creates them. Where the agreement provides a path, the dispute is about enforcing it; where it says nothing, Chapter 101’s defaults control, and they rarely match what the members would have chosen.
So every LLC dispute begins with a close reading of three documents: the company agreement, the certificate of formation, and any buy-sell or side agreement. What a Dallas LLC dispute lawyer finds in those three documents sets the range of possible outcomes before the first demand letter goes out.
What Our Dallas LLC Dispute Attorneys Handle
The LLC practice covers the full arc of an ownership conflict, including disputes over management authority and member voting rights; breach of fiduciary duty claims against managers and controlling members, in the narrower form Texas recognizes them; fights over distributions, capital calls, and access to the company’s books and records; member deadlock in fifty-fifty companies; freeze-out and oppression of minority members; removal of members or managers where the documents allow it; negotiated buyouts and forced exits; and judicial winding up under the Texas Business Organizations Code when the company genuinely cannot continue. Where a departing member has diverted the company’s opportunities or customers, the same suit usually adds business tort and unfair competition claims.
Roquemore Skierski PLLC has published practical guidance on two questions clients ask most: how a member can be removed from a Texas LLC, and how to force out a problem business partner. For the mechanics of a member exit, see the firm’s guide on removing a member from a Texas LLC.
How a Dallas LLC Dispute Lawyer Resolves These Cases
Most LLC disputes end with one owner buying out another, and the sooner that is negotiated, the more of the company’s value survives. The Dallas LLC dispute lawyers at Roquemore Skierski PLLC work member conflicts with that endpoint in view: valuing the interest, structuring the buyout, and papering the exit with releases that end the dispute rather than pausing it.
Where negotiation fails, the matter moves to the district courts of Dallas, Collin, Denton, and Tarrant Counties, and to injunctive relief under Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 680 through 689 when a member is draining accounts, locking co-owners out, or diverting the business in real time. A larger LLC dispute may fall within the jurisdiction of the Texas Business Court, the specialized court the Legislature created in 2024 for high-value commercial cases, where the amount in controversy meets that court’s threshold.
Valuation is often where the real fight happens, since the price of the departing member’s interest is what the parties are arguing about. Where a matter turns on business valuation, the firm engages and manages qualified experts inside the litigation rather than handing the case off.
Why LLC Owners in North Texas Choose Roquemore Skierski PLLC
Partnership and shareholder disputes, LLC member conflicts among them, are among the matters the firm handles most. It brings decades of Texas practice, knows the judges of the North Texas commercial dockets from years before them, and tries these cases when the client’s position calls for trial rather than settlement. The representation is built for privately held companies and owner-operators, including franchise groups, technology companies and startups, and professional services firms, for whom an ownership dispute threatens the business itself, not merely one account within it.
Protecting Your Stake in the Company You Built
An LLC dispute puts ownership, income, and control at risk at once, and the outcome turns on the governing documents, the default rules in Chapter 101 of the Texas Business Organizations Code, and decisions the members make under pressure. The Dallas LLC dispute attorneys at Roquemore Skierski PLLC bring decades of Texas partnership and ownership litigation to member and manager conflicts across North Texas. To discuss a dispute among LLC members or managers, call 972-325-6591 or contact Roquemore Skierski PLLC online to arrange a consultation.
How our team resolves business disputes, from start to finish.
We review the governing documents, build a factual timeline, gather key evidence, confirm deadlines, and align the legal approach with the client's business objectives.
We send a strategic demand letter identifying the dispute, proposing solutions, and setting a deadline. When assets or trade secrets are at risk, we seek immediate court relief to prevent further harm.
We pursue negotiation or mediation where productive, while continuing to preserve evidence and develop the case so leverage remains intact if settlement efforts do not succeed.
If a resolution is not reached, we file suit, use focused motions and discovery to narrow the dispute, present the case at trial, and enforce any favorable judgment.
More Dallas practice areas.
Start with the company agreement. If it contains removal or buyout provisions, those control. If it is silent, the default rules in Chapter 101 of the Texas Business Organizations Code make unilateral removal difficult, and the realistic routes are a negotiated buyout, a court proceeding where grounds exist, or litigation over the member's conduct. The firm's guide on member removal walks through each path.
A minority member can bring claims where a controlling owner breaches the company agreement, or a fiduciary duty that the agreement or Chapter 101 of the Texas Business Organizations Code imposes on managers and controlling members. Chapter 101 also gives members a right to inspect the company's books and records, which often brings the underlying conduct to light.
Generally not alone. Winding up requires the vote set by the company agreement, or by Chapter 11 of the Texas Business Organizations Code where the agreement is silent, or a court order in the limited circumstances Chapter 11 defines. Texas courts set a high bar before forcing a dissolution over a co-owner's objection.