(a) In winding up a partnership's business, the assets of the partnership, including the contributions of the partners required by this section, must be applied to discharge its obligations to creditors, including, to the extent permitted by law, partners who are creditors. Any surplus must be applied to pay in cash the net amount distributable to partners in accordance with their right to distributions under Subsection (b) of this section.

(b) Each partner is entitled to a settlement of all partnership accounts upon winding up the partnership business. In settling accounts among the partners, the profits and losses that result from the liquidation of the partnership assets must be credited and charged to the partner's accounts. The partnership shall make a distribution to a partner in an amount equal to any excess of the credits over the charges in the partner's account. Except as otherwise provided in Section 54-1A-306 NMSA 1978, a partner shall contribute to the partnership an amount equal to any excess of the charges over the credits in the partner's account but excluding from the calculation charges attributable to an obligation for which the partner is not personally liable under Section 54-1A-306 NMSA 1978.

(c) If a partner fails to contribute the full amount required under Subsection (b) of this section, all of the other partners shall contribute, in the proportions in which those partners share partnership losses, the additional amount necessary to satisfy the partnership obligations for which they are personally liable under Section 54-1A-306 NMSA 1978. A partner or partner's legal representative may recover from the other partners any contributions the partner makes to the extent the amount contributed exceeds that partner's share of the partnership obligations for which the partner is personally liable under Section 54-1A-306 NMSA 1978.

(d) After the settlement of accounts, each partner shall contribute, in the proportion in which the partner shares partnership losses, the amount necessary to satisfy partnership obligations that were not known at the time of the settlement and for which the partner is personally liable under Section 54-1A-306 NMSA 1978.

(e) The estate of a deceased partner is liable for the partner's obligation to contribute to the partnership.

(f) An assignee for the benefit of creditors of a partnership or a partner, or a person appointed by a court to represent creditors of a partnership or a partner, may enforce a partner's obligation to contribute to the partnership.

History: Laws 1996, ch. 53, § 807; 1997, ch. 76, § 9.

The 1997 amendment, effective July 1, 1997, in Subsection (a), added "of this section" at the end; in Subsection (b), made a section reference substitution and added "but excluding from the calculation charges attributable to an obligation for which the partner is not personally liable under Section 54-1A-306 NMSA 1978" at the end; in Subsection (c), in the first sentence, inserted "the full amount required under Subsection (b) of this section" near the beginning and added "for which they are personally liable under Section 54-1A-306 NMSA 1978" at the end, and, in the second sentence, added "for which the partner is personally liable under Section 54-1A-306 NMSA 1978" at the end; and, in Subsection (d), deleted "Except as otherwise provided in Section 306 and Section 54-1-48 NMSA 1978" from the beginning and added "and for which the partner is personally liable under Section 54-1A-306 NMSA 1978" at the end.