Iowa Code 488.812 – Disposition of assets — when contributions required
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1. In winding up a limited partnership‘s activities, the assets of the limited partnership, including the contributions required by this section, must be applied to satisfy the limited partnership’s obligations to creditors, including, to the extent permitted by law, partners that are creditors.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 488.812
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Distribution: means a transfer of money or other property from a limited partnership to a partner in the partner's capacity as a partner or to a transferee on account of a transferable interest owned by the transferee. See Iowa Code 488.102
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- General partner: means :a. See Iowa Code 488.102
- 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.
- Partner: means a limited partner or general partner. See Iowa Code 488.102
- 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.
- Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, or government; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or any other legal or commercial entity. See Iowa Code 488.102
2. Any surplus remaining after the limited partnership complies with subsection 1 must be paid in cash as a distribution.3. If a limited partnership’s assets are insufficient to satisfy all of its obligations under subsection 1, with respect to each unsatisfied obligation incurred when the limited partnership was not a limited liability limited partnership, the following rules apply:a. Each person that was a general partner when the obligation was incurred and that has not been released from the obligation under section 488.607 shall contribute to the limited partnership for the purpose of enabling the limited partnership to satisfy the obligation. The contribution due from each of those persons is in proportion to the right to receive distributions in the capacity of general partner in effect for each of those persons when the obligation was incurred.b. If a person does not contribute the full amount required under paragraph “a” with respect to an unsatisfied obligation of the limited partnership, the other persons required to contribute by paragraph “a” on account of the obligation shall contribute the additional amount necessary to discharge the obligation. The additional contribution due from each of those other persons is in proportion to the right to receive distributions in the capacity of general partner in effect for each of those other persons when the obligation was incurred.c. If a person does not make the additional contribution required by paragraph “b”, further additional contributions are determined and due in the same manner as provided in that paragraph.4. A person that makes an additional contribution under subsection 3, paragraph “b” or “c”, may recover from any person whose failure to contribute under subsection 3, paragraph “b” or “c”, necessitated the additional contribution. A person shall not recover under this subsection more than the amount additionally contributed. A person’s liability under this subsection shall not exceed the amount the person failed to contribute.5. The estate of a deceased individual is liable for the person’s obligations under this section.6. An assignee for the benefit of creditors of a limited partnership or a partner, or a person appointed by a court to represent creditors of a limited partnership or a partner, may enforce a person’s obligation to contribute under subsection 3.