(a)  Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or a written operating agreement:

(1)  A membership interest is assignable in whole or in part;

(2)  An assignment of a membership interest does not of itself dissolve a limited-liability company or entitle the assignee to participate in the management and affairs of the limited-liability company or to become a member or to exercise any rights or powers of a member;

(3)  An assignment entitles the assignee to receive, to the extent assigned, only the distributions to which the assignor would be entitled; and

(4)  A member ceases to be a member and to have the power to exercise any rights or powers of a member on assignment of all of the member’s membership interest.

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(b)  Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement, the pledge of or granting of a security interest, lien or other encumbrance in or against any or all of the membership interest of a member is not deemed an assignment of a membership interest.

(c)  Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement and except to the extent provided in a written agreement signed by an assignee, until an assignee of a membership interest becomes a member, the assignee has no liability as a member solely as a result of the assignment.