Factors that cause courts to ______________________: a party is tricked or misled into dealing w/ the corporation rather than the individual, corporation is set up never to make a profit or always to be insolvent or is it has insufficient capital at the time it is formed to meet its prospective debts or potential liabilities, corporation is formed to evade an existing legal obligation, statutory corporate formalities such as holding required corporation meetings are not followed, personal and corporate interests are mixed together or comingled to extent that the corporation has no separate identity.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Ans: pierce the corporate veil