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Partnership Dissolution Account Settling

The document outlines rules for settling accounts between partners after dissolution of a partnership. It discusses the assets of the partnership, which include partnership property and contributions from partners to pay liabilities. It also describes the order of payment for partnership liabilities, such as those owed to creditors, then partners for loans not capital, then capital contributions, then profits. The individual property of partners is also discussed, noting it is liable to pay contribution amounts owed and outlining the order of claims if a partner becomes insolvent.

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Partnership Dissolution Account Settling

The document outlines rules for settling accounts between partners after dissolution of a partnership. It discusses the assets of the partnership, which include partnership property and contributions from partners to pay liabilities. It also describes the order of payment for partnership liabilities, such as those owed to creditors, then partners for loans not capital, then capital contributions, then profits. The individual property of partners is also discussed, noting it is liable to pay contribution amounts owed and outlining the order of claims if a partner becomes insolvent.

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1.

Right of retention of partnership property


2. Right to be subrogated in place of creditors of partnership
3. Right to be indemnified by the guilty partner against all liabilities of the partnership.

Art. 1839. In settling accounts between the partners after dissolution, the following rules
shall be observed, subject to any agreement to the contrary:

1. The assets of the partnership are:

a. The partnership property.

b. The contributions of the partners necessary for the payment of all the liabilities
specified in No. 2.

2. The liabilities of the partnership shall rank in order of payment, as follows:

a. Those owing to creditors other than partners.

b. Those owing to partners other than for capital and profits.

c. Those owing to partners in respect of capital.

d. Those owing to partners in respect of profits.

3. The assets shall be applied in the order of their declaration in No. 1 of this article to the
satisfaction of the liabilities.

4. The partners shall contribute, as provided by article 1797, the amount necessary to
satisfy the liabilities.

5. An assignee for the benefit of creditors or any person appointed by the court shall have
the right to enforce the contributions specified in the preceding number.

6. Any partner or his legal representative shall have the right to enforce the contributions
specified in No. 4, to the extent of the amount which he has paid in excess of his share
of the liability.
7. The individual property of a deceased partner shall be liable for the contributions
specified in No. 4.

8. When partnership property and the individual properties of the partners are in
possession of a court for distribution, partnership creditors shall have priority on
partnership property and separate creditors on individual property, saving the rights
of lien or secured creditors.

9. Where a partner has become insolvent or his estate is insolvent, the claims
against his separate property shall rank in the following order:

a. Those owing to separate creditors.

b. Those owing to partnership creditors.

c. Those owing to partners by way of contribution.

Rules for settling accounts between the partners


1. The assets of the partnership
2. Liabilities of the partnership
3. Application of assets
4. Contribution by the partners

Assets of the partnership


1. Partnership property
2. The contributions of the partners necessary for the payment of all liabilities

Order of application of the assets


1. Those owing to partnership creditors
2. Those owing to partners other than for capital and profits such as loans given by
the partners or advances for business expenses
3. Those owing for the return of the capital contributed by the partners
4. The share of the profits, if any, due to each partner

Order of application of partner who become insolvent or his estate his insolvent, the
claims against his separate property
1. Those owing to separate creditors
2. Those owing to partnership creditors
3. Those owing to partners by way of contribution

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