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Tenn. Code Ann. § 61-1-803

Right to wind up partnership business

Known as the Uniform Partnership Act

The act spans §§ 61-1-1001 to 61-1-908 (67 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Moran v. WILLENSKY (2010)

Most recently applied in Moran v. WILLENSKY (February 2010)

Acts 2001, ch. 353.

(1) After dissolution, a partner who has not wrongfully dissociated may participate in winding up the partnership's business, but on application of any partner, partner's legal representative, or transferee, a court of equity jurisdiction in the county where the partnership's chief executive office is or was last located, for good cause shown, may order judicial supervision of the winding up.

(2) The legal representative of the last surviving partner may wind up a partnership's business.

(3) A person winding up a partnership's business may preserve the partnership business or property as a going concern for a reasonable time, prosecute and defend actions and proceedings, whether civil, criminal, or administrative, settle and close the partnership's business, dispose of and transfer the partnership's property, discharge the partnership's liabilities, distribute the assets of the partnership pursuant to § 61-1-807, settle disputes by mediation or arbitration, and perform other necessary acts.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.