A. Except as otherwise provided in subsection B or subsection C, all partners are liable jointly and severally for all obligations of the partnership unless otherwise agreed by the claimant or provided by law.
B. A person admitted as a partner into an existing partnership is not personally liable for any partnership obligation incurred before the person's admission as a partner.
C. A person is not, solely by reason of being a partner, liable, directly or indirectly, including by way of indemnification, contribution, assessment or otherwise, for debts, obligations or liabilities of, or chargeable to, the partnership, whether sounding in tort, contract or otherwise, that are incurred, created or assumed by the partnership while the partnership is a registered limited liability partnership.
D. A person is not, solely by reason of being a partner, a proper party to a proceeding by or against a registered limited liability partnership, the object of which is to recover damages, collect the debts or liabilities or enforce the obligations of the partnership with respect to which the partner is not liable under subsection C.
1996, c. 292.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 2.2 - Virginia Uniform Partnership Act
§ 50-73.80. Knowledge and notice
§ 50-73.81. Effect of partnership agreement; nonwaivable provisions
§ 50-73.82. Supplemental principles of law
§ 50-73.84. Law governing internal relations
§ 50-73.85. Transactions between partner and partnership
§ 50-73.86. Partnership subject to amendment or repeal of chapter
§ 50-73.87. Partnership as entity
§ 50-73.88. Formation of partnership
§ 50-73.89. Partnership property
§ 50-73.90. When property is partnership property
§ 50-73.91. Partner agent of partnership
§ 50-73.92. Transfer of partnership property
§ 50-73.93. Statement of partnership authority
§ 50-73.94. Statement of denial
§ 50-73.95. Partnership liable for partner's actionable conduct
§ 50-73.96. Partner's liability
§ 50-73.97. Actions by and against partnership and partners
§ 50-73.98. Liability of purported partner
§ 50-73.99. Partner's rights and duties
§ 50-73.100. Distributions in kind
§ 50-73.101. Partner's rights and duties with respect to information
§ 50-73.102. General standards of partner's conduct
§ 50-73.103. Actions by partnership and partners
§ 50-73.104. Continuation of partnership beyond definite term or particular undertaking
§ 50-73.105. Partner not co-owner of partnership property
§ 50-73.106. Partner's transferable interest in partnership
§ 50-73.107. Transfer of partner's transferable interest
§ 50-73.108. Partner's transferable interest subject to charging order
§ 50-73.109. Events causing partner's dissociation
§ 50-73.110. Partner's power to dissociate; wrongful dissociation
§ 50-73.111. Effect of partner's dissociation
§ 50-73.112. Purchase of dissociated partner's interest
§ 50-73.113. Dissociated partner's power to bind partnership
§ 50-73.114. Dissociated partner's liability to other persons
§ 50-73.115. Statement of dissociation
§ 50-73.116. Continued use of partnership name
§ 50-73.117. Events causing dissolution and winding up of partnership business
§ 50-73.118. Partnership continues after dissolution
§ 50-73.119. Right to wind up partnership business
§ 50-73.120. Partner's power to bind partnership after dissolution
§ 50-73.121. Statement of dissolution
§ 50-73.122. Partner's liability to other partners after dissolution
§ 50-73.123. Settlement of accounts and contributions among partners
§ 50-73.126. Conversion of limited partnership to partnership
§ 50-73.127. Effect of conversion; entity unchanged
§ 50-73.128. Merger of partnerships
§ 50-73.131. Statement of merger
§ 50-73.132. Registered limited liability partnerships
§ 50-73.133. Name of registered limited liability partnership
§ 50-73.135. Registered office and registered agent
§ 50-73.136. Amendment of statement of registration; effect of statement of registration
§ 50-73.137. Cancellation of a registered limited liability partnership
§ 50-73.137:1. Effect of cancellation of limited partnership certificate or registration
§ 50-73.137:2. Known claims against dissolved registered limited liability partnership
§ 50-73.137:3. Other claims against dissolved registered limited liability partnership
§ 50-73.137:4. Court proceedings
§ 50-73.138. Registration of foreign registered limited liability partnerships
§ 50-73.139. Withdrawal of a foreign registered limited liability partnership
§ 50-73.140. Effect of failure of foreign registered limited liability partnership to register
§ 50-73.141. Applicability of chapter to foreign and interstate commerce
§ 50-73.142. Limited partnerships as registered limited liability partnerships