178.0407 Liability for improper distributions by limited liability partnership.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in sub. (2), if a partner of a limited liability partnership consents to a distribution made in violation of s. 178.0406 and in consenting to the distribution fails to comply with s. 178.0409, the partner is personally liable to the partnership for the amount of the distribution which exceeds the amount that could have been distributed without the violation of s. 178.0406.
(2) To the extent the partnership agreement of a limited liability partnership expressly relieves a partner of the authority and responsibility to consent to distributions and imposes that authority and responsibility on one or more other partners, the liability stated in sub. (1) applies to the other partners and not to the partner that the partnership agreement relieves of the authority and responsibility.
(3) A person that receives a distribution knowing that the distribution violated s. 178.0406 is personally liable to the limited liability partnership but only to the extent that the distribution received by the person exceeded the amount that could have been properly paid under s. 178.0406.
(4) A person against which an action is commenced because the person is liable under sub. (1) may do any of the following:
(a) Implead any other person that is liable under sub. (1) and seek to enforce a right of contribution from the person.
(b) Implead any person that received a distribution in violation of sub. (3) and seek to enforce a right of contribution from the person in the amount the person received in violation of sub. (3).
(5) An action under this section is barred unless commenced not later than 2 years after the distribution.
History: 2015 a. 295.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 178 - Uniform partnership law.
178.0105 - Partnership agreement; scope, function, and limitations.
178.0108 - Signing of records to be delivered for filing to the department.
178.0109 - Liability for inaccurate information in filed record.
178.0111 - Delivery of record.
178.0112 - Signing and filing pursuant to judicial order.
178.0113 - Filing requirements.
178.0114 - Effective date and time.
178.0115 - Withdrawal of filed record before effectiveness.
178.0116 - Correcting filed record.
178.0117 - Duty of department to file; review of refusal to file; delivery of record by department.
178.0119 - Supplemental principles of law.
178.0120 - Fees; certified copies; filing false documents.
178.0121 - Certificate of status.
178.0201 - Partnership as entity.
178.0202 - Formation of partnership.
178.0203 - Partnership property.
178.0204 - When property is partnership property.
178.0301 - Partner agent of partnership.
178.0302 - Transfer of partnership property.
178.0303 - Statement of partnership authority.
178.0304 - Statement of denial.
178.0305 - Partnership liable for partner's actionable conduct.
178.0306 - Partner's liability.
178.0307 - Actions by and against partnership and partners.
178.0308 - Liability of purported partner.
178.0401 - Partner's rights and duties.
178.0403 - Form of contribution.
178.0404 - Liability for contribution.
178.0405 - Sharing of and right to distributions before dissolution.
178.0406 - Limitations on distributions by limited liability partnership.
178.0407 - Liability for improper distributions by limited liability partnership.
178.0408 - Rights to information of partners and persons dissociated as partner.
178.0409 - Standards of conduct for partners.
178.0410 - Actions by partnership and partners.
178.0411 - Continuation of partnership beyond definite term or particular undertaking.
178.0501 - Partner not co-owner of partnership property.
178.0502 - Nature of transferable interest.
178.0503 - Transfer of transferable interest.
178.0505 - Power of legal representative of deceased partner.
178.0601 - Events causing dissociation.
178.0602 - Power to dissociate as partner; wrongful dissociation.
178.0603 - Effect of dissociation.
178.0701 - Purchase of interest of person dissociated as partner.
178.0702 - Power to bind and liability of person dissociated as partner.
178.0703 - Liability of person dissociated as partner to other persons.
178.0704 - Statement of dissociation.
178.0705 - Continued use of partnership name.
178.0801 - Events causing dissolution.
178.0803 - Rescinding dissolution.
178.0804 - Power to bind partnership after dissolution.
178.0805 - Liability after dissolution of partner and person dissociated as partner.
178.0806 - Disposition of assets in winding up; when contributions required.
178.0807 - Known claims against dissolved limited liability partnership.
178.0808 - Claims against dissolved limited liability partnership generally.
178.0901 - Statement of qualification.
178.09031 - Grounds for revocation.
178.09032 - Procedure for and effect of administrative revocation.
178.0904 - Reinstatement following administrative revocation.
178.0905 - Appeal from denial of reinstatement.
178.0906 - Reservation of name.
178.0907 - Registration of name.
178.0908 - Registered agent and registered office.
178.0909 - Change of registered agent or registered office by limited liability partnership.
178.0910 - Resignation of registered agent.
178.0911 - Change of name or address by registered agent.
178.0912 - Service of process, notice, or demand.
178.0913 - Annual report for department.
178.1002 - Registration to do business in this state.
178.1003 - Foreign registration statement.
178.1004 - Amendment of foreign registration statement.
178.1005 - Activities not constituting doing business.
178.1006 - Noncomplying name of foreign limited liability partnership.
178.1009 - Transfer of registration.
178.10101 - Grounds for revocation.
178.10102 - Procedure for and effect of revocation.
178.10103 - Appeal from revocation.
178.1011 - Withdrawal of registration of registered foreign limited liability partnership.
178.1012 - Action by attorney general.
178.1102 - Relationship of subchapter to other laws.
178.1105 - Reference to external facts.
178.1123 - Approval of merger; amendment; abandonment.
178.1124 - Filings required for merger; effective date.
178.1131 - Interest exchange authorized.
178.1132 - Plan of interest exchange.
178.1133 - Approval of interest exchange; amendment; abandonment.
178.1134 - Filings required for interest exchange; effective date.
178.1135 - Effect of interest exchange.
178.1141 - Conversion authorized.
178.1142 - Plan of conversion.
178.1143 - Approval of conversion; amendment; abandonment.
178.1144 - Filings required for conversion; effective date.
178.1145 - Effect of conversion.
178.1151 - Domestication authorized.
178.1152 - Plan of domestication.
178.1153 - Approval of domestication; amendment; abandonment.
178.1154 - Filings required for domestication; effective date.
178.1161 - Restrictions on approval of mergers, interest exchanges, conversions and domestications.
178.1201 - Uniformity of application and construction.
178.1202 - Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act.