Must an employment contract between a director and their own company have certified signatures?
Read the tip →It must, if you are the sole shareholder and director and sign the contract both for the company and for yourself. In July 2026 the Czech Supreme Court ruled that such a contract is not void for conflict of interest, but it requires written form with officially certified signatures. Certifying the signatures later only works for the future. The insurer therefore need not pay for an injury that happened earlier. Certification costs one hundred crowns.
May you use a competitor's brand in Google ads? As a keyword yes, in the ad text no
Customers never see the keyword, but they do see the ad text. Why you may buy a competitor's brand as a keyword, why you should keep it out of the headline and how it can end up there on its own.
Read the tip →Without a document, neither the bank nor the authorities will deal with you. An administrator of the estate has one at once, an heir waits for the court
A business, rented flats or pending litigation will not wait for the succession proceedings to end. Who may look after them, what they have to show at the counter, and why appointing an administrator before a notary is worth the modest fee.
Read the tip →A homemade will has to be defended in court. A notarial one does not
Three forms of a will and one decisive difference: who will have to prove, after your death, that the document is genuine. Plus what happens without a will and why a couple's joint property is settled first.
Read the tip →Did you give one of your children more? It will affect the inheritance less than you expect
Three years, the form of a will, and one exception for a start in life. You change the statutory set-off rules only by an order, typically in your will. When a gift counts by itself and when you must step in.
Read the tip →You can win the case and still pay your own lawyer. All it takes is forgetting the pre-action notice
Seven days ahead, in writing, and an e-mail is fine. Without the notice the court need not award you costs even if you win. What counts as a notice, and when the court cuts the lawyer's fee.
Read the tip →When does the limitation period on your invoice start running? Probably before you issued it
The Supreme Court's Grand Chamber: the clock starts when you could have invoiced, not on the invoice due date. The Constitutional Court disagreed in September 2025. Nobody has reconciled the two, and it is the creditor who pays for it.
Read the tip →A contract with a debtor already in enforcement is just worthless paper. Check the other side first
Two minutes, two public sources: the Central Register of Enforcement Proceedings (CZK 60) and the free Insolvency Register. Why paper security fails against an insolvent debtor.
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