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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 362.481: Rights of judgment creditor.

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  1. KRS Chapter 362

(1) This section provides the exclusive remedy by which the judgment creditor of a

partner or the transferee of a partner may satisfy a judgment out of the

judgment debtor's transferable interest.

(2) On application to a court of competent jurisdiction by any judgment creditor of

a partner or a partner's transferee, the court may charge the transferable

interest of the judgment debtor with payment of the unsatisfied amount of the

judgment. To the extent so charged, the judgment creditor has only the rights

of a transferee, and shall have no right to participate in the management of or

to cause the dissolution of the partnership. The court may appoint a receiver of

the share of the distributions due or to become due to the judgment debtor in

respect of the partnership and make all other orders, directions, accounts, and

inquiries the judgment debtor might have made or which the circumstances of

the case may require to give effect to the charging order.

(3) A charging order constitutes a lien on and the right to receive distributions

made with respect to the judgment debtor's transferable interest. A charging

order does not of itself constitute an assignment of the transferable interest.

(4) The court may order a foreclosure upon the transferable interest subject to the

charging order at any time. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale has the rights

of a transferee.

(5) At any time before foreclosure, an interest charged may be redeemed:

(a) By the judgment debtor;

(b) With property other than limited partnership property, by one (1) or more

of the other partners; or

(c) With limited partnership property, by the limited partnership with the

consent of all partners whose interests are not so charged.

(6) This section does not deprive any partner or a partner's transferee of the

benefit of any exemption laws applicable to the partner's or transferee's

transferable interest.

(7) The partnership is not a necessary party to an application for a charging order.

Service of the charging order on a partnership may be made by the court

granting the charging order or as the court may otherwise direct.

(8) This section shall not apply to the enforcement of a judgment by a limited

partnership against a partner of that partnership.

(9) This section shall apply to the issuance of a charging order against the interest

of a partner or assignee of a partner of a foreign partnership.

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