Texas Business Organizations Code 153.161 – Liability of General Partner for Debt Incurred After Event of Withdrawal
(a) Unless otherwise provided by a written partnership agreement and subject to the liability created under § 153.162, a general partner who ceases to be a general partner under § 153.155 is not personally liable in the partner’s capacity as a general partner for partnership debt incurred after that partner ceases to be a general partner unless the applicable creditor at the time the debt was incurred reasonably believed that the partner remained a general partner.
(b) A creditor of the partnership has reason to believe that a partner remains a general partner if:
(1) the creditor had no knowledge or notice of the general partner’s withdrawal and:
(A) was a creditor of the partnership at the time of the general partner’s withdrawal; or
(B) had extended credit to the partnership within two years before the date of withdrawal; or
(2) the creditor had known that the partner was a general partner in the partnership before the general partner’s withdrawal and had no knowledge or notice of the withdrawal and the general partner’s withdrawal had not been advertised in a newspaper of general circulation in each place at which the partnership business was regularly conducted.
Terms Used In Texas Business Organizations Code 153.161
- Business: means a trade, occupation, profession, or other commercial activity. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- General partner: means :
(A) each partner in a general partnership; or
(B) a person who has become, and has not ceased to be, a general partner in a limited partnership in accordance with the governing documents of the limited partnership or this code. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002 - Partner: means a limited partner or general partner. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- 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.
- Partnership: means an entity governed as a partnership under Title 4. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002
- written: means an expression of words, letters, characters, numbers, symbols, figures, or other textual information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium that is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Texas Business Organizations Code 1.002