(1) In winding up its activities and affairs, a partnership shall apply its assets, including the contributions required by this section, to discharge the partnership‘s obligations to creditors, including partners that are creditors.

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Terms Used In Utah Code 48-1d-906

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • 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 person that:
         (11)(a) has become a partner in a partnership under Section 48-1d-401 or was a partner in a partnership when the partnership became subject to this chapter under Section 48-1d-1405; and
         (11)(b) has not dissociated as a partner under Section 48-1d-701. See Utah Code 48-1d-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.
  • Partnership: means an association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit formed under this chapter or that becomes subject to this chapter under Part 10, Merger, Interest Exchange, Conversion, and Domestication, or Section 48-1d-1405. See Utah Code 48-1d-102
  • Person: means an individual, business corporation, nonprofit corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited cooperative association, unincorporated nonprofit association, statutory trust, business trust, common-law business trust, estate, trust, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Utah Code 48-1d-102
  • Transfer: includes :
         (24)(a) an assignment;
         (24)(b) a conveyance;
         (24)(c) a sale;
         (24)(d) a lease;
         (24)(e) an encumbrance, including a mortgage or security interest;
         (24)(f) a gift; and
         (24)(g) a transfer by operation of law. See Utah Code 48-1d-102
  • Transferable interest: means the right, as initially owned by a person in the person's capacity as a partner, to receive distributions from a partnership in accordance with the partnership agreement, whether or not the person remains a partner or continues to own any part of the right. See Utah Code 48-1d-102
(2) After a partnership complies with Subsection (1), any surplus must be distributed in the following order, subject to any charging order in effect under Section 48-1d-604:

     (2)(a) to each person owning a transferable interest that reflects contributions made and not previously returned, an amount equal to the value of the unreturned contributions; and
     (2)(b) among partners in proportion to their respective rights to share in distributions immediately before the dissolution of the partnership, except to the extent necessary to comply with any transfer effective under Section 48-1d-603.
(3) If a partnership’s assets are insufficient to satisfy all its obligations under Subsection (1), with respect to each unsatisfied obligation incurred when the partnership was not a limited liability partnership, the following rules apply:

     (3)(a) Each person that was a partner when the obligation was incurred and that has not been released from the obligation under Subsections 48-1d-803(3) and (4) shall contribute to the partnership to enable the 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 partner in effect for each of those persons when the obligation was incurred.
     (3)(b) If a person does not contribute the full amount required under Subsection (3)(a) with respect to an unsatisfied obligation of the partnership, the other persons required to contribute by Subsection (3)(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 partner in effect for each of those other persons when the obligation was incurred.
     (3)(c) If a person does not make the additional contribution required by Subsection (3)(b), further additional contributions are determined and due in the same manner as provided in that subsection.
     (3)(d) A person that makes an additional contribution under Subsection (3)(b) or (3)(c) may recover from any person whose failure to contribute under Subsection (3)(a) or (3)(b) necessitated the additional contribution. A person may not recover under this Subsection (3) more than the amount additionally contributed. A person’s liability under this Subsection (3) may not exceed the amount the person failed to contribute.
(4) If a partnership does not have sufficient surplus to comply with Subsection (2)(a), any surplus must be distributed among the owners of transferable interests in proportion to the value of the respective unreturned contributions.
(5) All distributions made under Subsections (2) and (4) must be paid in money.