Ala. Code § 10A-30-1.15: Continuity of Association Independent of Members or Shareholders; Applicable to Professional Associations Formed Prior to January 1, 1984.

Unless the certificate of formation expressly provide otherwise, a professional association shall continue as a separate entity independent of its members or shareholders for all purposes for such period of time as provided in the certificate of formation or until dissolved by a vote of two thirds of the members, and shall continue notwithstanding the death, insanity, incompetency, conviction for felony, resignation, withdrawal, transfer of membership or ownership of shares, retirement, or expulsion of any one or more of the members or shareholders, the admission or transfer of membership or shares to any new member, members, shareholder, or shareholders or the happening of any other event which, under the law of this state and under like circumstances, would work a dissolution of the partnership, it being the aim and intention of this section that such professional association shall have continuity of life independent of the life or status of its members or shareholders.