KRS 362.1-801: Events causing dissolution and winding up of partnership business.
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A partnership is dissolved, and its business shall be wound up, only upon the occurrence
of any of the following events:
(1) In a partnership at will, the partnership's having notice from a partner, other than a
partner who is dissociated under KRS 362.1-601(2) to (10), of that partner's express
will to withdraw as a partner, or on a later date specified by the partner;
(2) In a partnership for a definite term or particular undertaking:
(a) Within ninety (90) days after a partner's dissociation by death or otherwise
under KRS 362.1 -601(6) to (10) or wrongful dissociation under KRS 362.1 -
602(2), the express will of at least half of the remaining partners to wind up
the partnership business, for which purpose a partner's rightful dissociation
pursuant to KRS 3 62.1-602(2)(b)1. constitutes the expression of that partner's
will to wind up the partnership business;
(b) The express will of all of the partners to wind up the partnership business; or
(c) The expiration of the term or the completion of the undertaking;
(3) An event agreed to in the partnership agreement resulting in the winding up of the
partnership business;
(4) An event that makes it unlawful for all or substantially all of the business of the
partnership to be continued, but a cure of illegality with in ninety (90) days after
notice to the partnership of the event is effective retroactively to the date of the
event for purposes of this section;
(5) On application by a partner, a judicial determination that:
(a) The economic purpose of the partnership i s likely to be unreasonably
frustrated;
(b) Another partner has engaged in conduct relating to the partnership business
which makes it not reasonably practicable to carry on the business in
partnership with that partner; or
(c) It is not otherwise reasonab ly practicable to carry on the partnership business
in conformity with the partnership agreement; or
(6) On application by a transferee of a partner's transferable interest, a judicial
determination that it is equitable to wind up the partnership business:
(a) After the expiration of the term or completion of the undertaking, if the
partnership was for a definite term or particular undertaking at the time of the
transfer or entry of the charging order that gave rise to the transfer; or
(b) At any time, if the partnership was a partnership at will at the time of the
transfer or entry of the charging order that gave rise to the transfer.
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