The shells and the resurrection

#The trademarks move

Start with the brand, because the brand was the last thing worth anything. The Bricks & Minifigs franchise system runs on a name, and the federal registration for the standard-character mark BAM is owned by BAM Franchising, Inc., the operating company at the center of the litigation. USPTO TSDR, BAM (SN 98706031) In Utah’s corporate registry, that operating entity now reads “Inactive.” Utah UCC No. Utah UCC - BAM Franchising Business 11984597 Detail

On July 16, 2025, while the franchisee lawsuits and the trademark fight were live, a new company was organized in Utah: BAM IP Holdings, LLC, filed active, its managers listed as Ammon McNeff and Matthew McNeff, the two sons running the franchise day to day. Utah UCC No. Utah UCC - BAM IP Holdings Business 14333873 Detail Filing History BAM IP Holdings LLC, Reg. No. 14333873 The entity is named for intellectual property, formed by the operators of a franchise whose remaining value depends heavily on its brand.

What the public record does not yet show is a recorded assignment moving the BAM marks out of the operating company and into the new holding company. A focused pass through the federal Assignment Center turned up no public assignment bridge from BAM IP Holdings to the sampled BAM or Bricks & Minifigs marks; the registered BAM mark still names BAM Franchising as owner. USPTO TSDR, BAM (SN 98706031) The Delaware redomestication did not move them either: the surviving Delaware corporation was supposed to inherit the Oregon company’s property by operation of law, yet the marks still name the old Oregon entity, leaving the title clouded across three boxes, the inactive Oregon shell that still holds the registrations, the Delaware survivor that supposedly absorbed it, and the Utah holding company built to receive it. Delaware Certificate of Merger - BAM Franchising (Oregon) into Delaware - File 2482543, Reg. No. 2482543 So the transfer, if it happened, has not surfaced on paper, and that distinction matters. But the shape is the relevant record fact: a negative-equity operating company, a new entity owned by insiders, and the valuable asset positioned one entity away from old creditors while the operating business keeps using the name. BAM IP Holdings’ own Utah registration carries no intellectual-property assignment recorded into it, so the marks remain, on the record, where they started. USPTO TSDR, BAM (SN 98706031) Utah UCC No. Utah UCC - BAM IP Holdings Business 14333873 Name History Whether a court will ever call it a fraudulent conveyance is undecided; the structure is on the registry. Utah UCC No. Utah UCC - BAM IP Holdings Business 14333873 Detail

#The husk and the resurrection

The second move is cleaner, and it is documented to the day. The company that had been sued for twenty years, Legally Mine, LLC, the original Utah entity formed back in January 2009, did not die. It was renamed. On May 21, 2026, an amendment to its certificate of organization ran through Utah’s Business Entity Search. Filing History LM OLDCO LLC, Reg. No. 7228976 The thing once called Legally Mine became “LM OLDCO, LLC”, a conventional old-company name for a shell left after a business line has moved. It did not happen only once: that same afternoon, by an identical amendment, the family’s tax-and-accounting arm, Legally Mine Tax and Accounting, LLC, was renamed to “LMTA OLDCO, LLC.” LMTA OLDCO, LLC - Amendment to Certificate of Organization (UT 2026-05-21) Two companies turned into two husks in a single sitting. The tax-and-accounting work also runs through an entity called SHIELLD LLC, which Utah lists doing business as ‘Legally Mine Tax & Accounting’ and as ‘SHIELLD Tax & Accounting.’ SHIELLD LLC

Eight days later, the good part reappeared. On May 29, 2026, a separate company registered the assumed name “LEGALLY MINE LLC” as a brand-new doing-business-as, and a companion DBA, “LEGALLY MINE TAX AND ACCOUNTING LLC.” Filing History Legally Mine 2026 Entity, Reg. No. 14441858 Filing History Legally Mine Tax and Accounting 2026 Entity, Reg. No. 14441864 The certificate of assumed name for the revived “Legally Mine” brand is its own filing. Assumed Name (DBA) Legally Mine 2026 Entity, Reg. No. 6069703 The owner of these freshly minted Legally Mine names is not the litigated entity. It is Centra Wealth Solutions, LLC. Centra Wealth Solutions LLC, Reg. No. 6061489

The sequence matters. The defendant in the lawsuits is renamed “LM OLDCO”. Certificate of Organization LM OLDCO LLC, Reg. No. 6045616 The operating brand then reappears as an assumed name owned by a different company with no litigation history attached to it. Assumed Name (DBA) Legally Mine 2026 Entity, Reg. No. 6069703 Centra Wealth Solutions LLC, Reg. No. 6061489 Same product, same market, new shell. It leaves creditors and regulators chasing the old name while the customer-facing name continues elsewhere.

#Who is Centra

Centra Wealth Solutions, LLC was organized in Utah, with a certificate of organization on file and a registered agent, BTJD Corporate Services, LLC, that also serves the new Legally Mine DBAs. Certificate of Organization Centra Wealth Solutions LLC, Reg. No. 5892820 Filing History Centra Wealth Solutions LLC, Reg. No. 14421835 Its managers, per the Utah registry, are two men: David Johnston and Mark Comer. Centra Wealth Solutions LLC, Reg. No. 6061489

The name Mark Comer carries weight because FTC v. iMall is not a rumor and not just a vague “sanction.” In 1999, over the Internet commerce venture iMall, the Federal Trade Commission obtained a stipulated final judgment and order for permanent injunction against iMall, Craig R. Pickering, and a Mark R. Comer, resolving charges that they made false earnings claims for Internet-based business opportunities and violated the FTC Franchise Rule. FTC v. iMall, Inc., No. 2:99-CV-03650 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 12, 1999)^✓ The order matters in four distinct ways:

• Money: $4 million in total consumer redress, with iMall paying $750,000 and Pickering and Comer paying a total of $3.25 million. FTC v. iMall, Inc., No. 2:99-CV-03650 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 12, 1999)^✓
• Business-opportunity restraints: Pickering and Comer were permanently barred from selling Internet-related or pay-per-call business opportunities, barred for ten years from selling franchises, and required to post a $500,000 performance bond before selling business opportunities. FTC v. iMall, Inc., No. 2:99-CV-03650 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 12, 1999)^✓
• Conduct restraints: the order barred future Franchise Rule violations and material misrepresentations in business-opportunity marketing. FTC v. iMall, Inc., No. 2:99-CV-03650 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 12, 1999)^✓
• Publication caveat: the stipulated judgment resolved the FTC case for settlement purposes and was not an admission of a law violation; it proves the court-entered order and its terms, not a trial finding. FTC v. iMall, Inc., No. 2:99-CV-03650 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 12, 1999)^✓

Whether the Mark Comer now steering the revived “Legally Mine” brand is that same man is strongly corroborated, and not on the shared name alone. Across independent records the match holds on several axes: the same middle-initial-R name; the age iMall’s own SEC filing gives for Comer (31, in early 1998), which fits the present-day Comer; the same Brigham Young University attendance window, 1984 to 1985, recited in both the iMall filing and the present-day record; the same Utah County base; and the same seminar-marketed line of business. The registry establishes the role, and those cross-record identifiers establish the person to a strong degree; what is held back from outright confirmation is narrow, and set out below. What the record does say cleanly is this: the company now holding the Legally Mine name is run by a man named Mark Comer, out of an address in Highland, Utah, that the old operating entity never used. Centra Wealth Solutions LLC, Reg. No. 6061489

That an asset-protection brand with a federal UPL injunction against it Final Order, Ohio Bar v. Legally Mine should re-emerge under new managers, in a new entity, weeks after the litigated company was renamed to “OLDCO,” is one more instance of the same structure.

#The houses

The brand, the operating shell, and the receivables are three of the asset classes the family ran its own product on. The fourth is the most concrete, because it is where they live. Start with where the family actually lives. Rivendell Estates, LLC, one of a row of whimsically named McNeff entities, is owned, per its own 2016 certificate of organization, by “The Daniel J. and Evelyn F. McNeff Living Trust.” Rivendell Estates, LLC - Certificate of Organization (UT 2016-05-26) That same certificate carries, verbatim, the charging-order mechanic the seminars sell: a “Distribution Authority” article empowering the members to “distribute the profits and/or capital of the LLC business pro-rata or non-pro-rata as they deem advisable.” The clause was filed in May 2016, years before this family’s litigation began. It is the marketed design, found operating inside the family’s own governing document, on the family’s own roof. The county recorder shows that same LLC held the family home at 415 E 1280 N in Orem: Daniel and Evelyn deeded it in, Rivendell held title, and in 2021 it was deeded back out. Utah County Recorder — 415 E 1280 N Orem (Rivendell, parcel 55-602-0002) A living trust on top, an asset-protection LLC beneath it, a house at the bottom, the nesting-doll arrangement the curriculum prescribes.

Then watch the timing. On January 12, 2021, about ten days before Daniel’s own sons sued him in federal court, four of these asset-protection LLCs deeded four family houses to Evelyn McNeff, Daniel’s wife, in four consecutive recorder entries, 5830 through 5833: Bear-Elf Manor, Legal Bear, Legal Bricks, and Rivendell Estates, each to Evelyn, one after another. Utah County Recorder — 2021-01-12 batch transfers to Evelyn McNeff (entries 5830-5833) Two years later, on February 26, 2023, the move reversed: Evelyn deeded three of the houses back out to three brand-new entities, Bagend Burrow, Green Dragon Lair, and Phoenix Keep, again in consecutive entries, 11822 through 11824. Utah County Recorder — 2023-02-26 batch transfers from Evelyn McNeff (entries 11822-11824) Consecutive entry numbers are the signature of a single coordinated batch recording, not four families independently selling houses on the same day. It is the same fingerprint as the husk-shed up the page: two Legally Mine entities renamed in the same minute in 2026. Filing History LM OLDCO LLC, Reg. No. 7228976

The names read like a fantasy index, Bagend Burrow, Green Dragon Lair, Phoenix Keep, Doriath Domain, Rivendell Estates, Bear-Elf Manor, alongside the Daniel Jay and Evelyn Freeman McNeff Family Limited Partnership. The pattern beneath them is uniform: a McNeff individual or the family partnership conveys to an asset-protection LLC or land trust, the 2021 batch moves the house to Evelyn, the 2023 batch moves it on to a fresh shell. Utah County Recorder — 376 S 1065 W Orem (Corner Cottage, parcel 55-017-0001) Utah County Recorder — 528 & 526 N Orem Blvd (Legal Bricks / Phoenix Keep, parcels 41-311-0017 and 41-311-0018) These are the same charging-order LLCs and land trusts the company teaches, run on the family’s own homes rather than a client’s.

None of this is, by itself, unlawful. Charging-order LLCs and living trusts are ordinary estate-planning tools; deeding property to a spouse is common; and the 2016 clause and the 2016 deed-in long predate any of this family’s litigation, which cuts against reading the structure as a reaction to a creditor. No court has found that any of these transfers was a fraudulent conveyance, and whether one ever will is undecided. What the record shows is the structure, and that the structure is the one the company sold.

One more parcel rounds out the picture, with a caution attached. In Provo, the home of Ammon McNeff at 2659 N 850 W carries a $300,000 deed of trust to Mountain America, signed February 19, 2026 and recorded February 25, in the same window the litigation was peaking. Utah County Recorder — 2659 N 850 W Provo (Ammon home, parcel 55-333-0014) + 2026 refinance docs When a related lien was reconveyed weeks later, the release retired only a 2017 deed of trust for $46,000; an older 2012 deed of trust to Goldenwest, recorded for $250,800, shows no reconveyance anywhere in the recorder’s index. On the face of the record, then, the 2026 refinance added new secured borrowing over a large prior lien it did not retire, rather than paying that lien off. Two honest limits travel with that reading. The size of the net draw depends on whether the 2012 Goldenwest lien was in fact still open, which the absence of a recorded release strongly suggests but does not conclusively prove.

#One operation, two Orem buildings

The shell game above presents two camps that are supposed to be strangers to each other, the father's litigated asset-protection firm on one side and the sons' toy franchise on the other. On the address record they are not strangers. They are one family operation run out of two buildings in Orem, and the registry says so on its face.