West Virginia Code 47-9-38 – Liability upon return of contribution
(a) If a partner has received the return of any part of his contribution without violation of the partnership agreement or this article, he is liable to the limited partnership for a period of one year thereafter for the amount of the returned contribution, but only to the extent necessary to discharge the limited partnership's liabilities to creditors who extended credit to the limited partnership during the period the contribution was held by the partnership.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 47-9-38
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Contribution: means any cash, property, services rendered or a promissory note or other binding obligation to contribute cash or property or to perform services, which a partner contributes to a limited partnership in his or her capacity as a partner. See West Virginia Code 47-9-1
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Partner: means a limited or general partner. See West Virginia Code 47-9-1
- 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 agreement: means any valid agreement, written or oral, of the partners as to the affairs of a limited partnership and the conduct of its business. See West Virginia Code 47-9-1
(b) If a partner has received the return of any part of his contribution in violation of the partnership agreement or this article, he is liable to the limited partnership for a period of six years thereafter for the amount of the contribution wrongfully returned.
(c) A partner receives a return of his contribution to the extent that a distribution to him reduces his share of the fair value of the net assets of the limited partnership below the value, as set forth in the records required to be kept by section five of this article, of his contribution which has not been distributed to him