Section 7-12-53 Rights of retiring or estate of deceased partner when the business is continued.

RI Gen L § 7-12-53 (2019) (N/A)

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§ 7-12-53. Rights of retiring or estate of deceased partner when the business is continued. When any partner retires or dies, and the business is continued under any of the conditions described in subsection (a), (b), (c), (e) or (f) of § 7-12-52, or § 7-12-49(b)(2), without any settlement of accounts as between him or her or his or her estate and the person or partnership continuing the business, unless otherwise agreed, he or she or his or her legal representative as against the persons or partnership may have the value of his or her interest at the date of dissolution ascertained, and shall receive as an ordinary creditor an amount equal to the value of his or her interest in the dissolved partnership with interest, or, at his or her option or at the option of his or her legal representative, in lieu of interest, the profits attributable to the use of his or her right in the property of the dissolved partnership; provided, that the creditors of the dissolved partnership as against the separate creditors, or the representative of the retired or deceased partner, have priority on any claim arising under this section as provided by § 7-12-52(h).

History of Section. (R.P.L. 1957, ch. 74, § 42.)

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