(a) A dissolved limited partnership may dispose of the known claims against it by following the procedure described in this section.
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 61-2-805
Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) The dissolved limited partnership shall notify its known claimants in writing of the dissolution at any time after its effective date. The written notice must:
(1) Describe information that must be included in a claim;(2)State whether the claim is admitted, or not admitted, and if admitted:
(A) The amount that is admitted, which may be as of a given date; and(B) Any interest obligation if fixed by an instrument of indebtedness;(3) Provide a mailing address where a claim may be sent;(4) State the deadline, which may not be fewer than four (4) months from the effective date of the written notice, by which the dissolved limited partnership must receive the claim; and(5) State that, except to the extent that any claim is admitted, the claim will be barred if written notice of the claim is not received by the deadline.(c) A claim against the dissolved limited partnership is barred to the extent that it is not admitted:
(1) If the dissolved limited partnership delivered written notice to the claimant in accordance with subsection (b) and the claimant does not deliver a written notice of the claim to the dissolved limited partnership by the deadline; or(2) If the dissolved limited partnership delivered written notice to the claimant that his claim is rejected, in whole or in part, and the claimant does not commence a proceeding to enforce the claim within three (3) months from the effective date of the rejection notice.(d) For purposes of this section, “claim” does not include a contingent liability or a claim based on an event occurring after the effective date of dissolution.(e) For purposes of this section, written notice, if in a comprehensible form, is effective at the earliest of the following:
(1) When received;(2) Five (5) days after its deposit in the United States mail, if mailed correctly addressed and with first class postage affixed thereon;(3) On the date shown on the return receipt, if sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, and the receipt is signed by or on behalf of the addressee; or(4) Twenty (20) days after its deposit in the United States mail, as evidenced by the postmark if mailed correctly addressed, and with other than first class, registered or certified postage affixed.
