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...its books and records. It shall provide former partners and their agents and attorneys access to books and records pertaining to the period during which they were partners. The right of access provides the opportunity to inspect and copy books and records during ordinary business hours. A partnership may impose a reasonable charge, covering the costs of labor and material, for copies of documents furnished. (C...

...(A) The only fiduciary duties a partner owes to the partnership and the other partners are the duty of loyalty and the duty of care set forth in divisions (B) and (C) of this section. (B) A partner's duty of loyalty to the partnership and the other partners is limited to the following: (1) To account to the partnership and hold as trustee for it any property, profit, or benefit derived by the partner in the ...

...(A) A partnership may maintain an action against a partner for a breach of the partnership agreement or for the violation of a duty to the partnership, causing harm to the partnership. (B) A partner may maintain an action against the partnership or another partner for legal or equitable relief, with or without an accounting as to partnership business, to enforce any of the following: (1) The partner's rights...

...(A) If a partnership for a definite term or particular undertaking is continued, without an express agreement, after the expiration of the term or completion of the undertaking, the rights and duties of the partners remain the same as they were at the expiration or completion, so far as is consistent with a partnership at will. (B) If the partners, or those who habitually acted in the business during the ter...

...A partner is not a co-owner of partnership property and has no interest in partnership property that can be transferred, either voluntarily or involuntarily.

...A partner's economic interest is the only transferable interest of a partner in the partnership. The economic interest is personal property.

...(A) On application by a judgment creditor of a partner or of a partner's transferee, a court having jurisdiction may charge the economic interest of the judgment debtor to satisfy the judgment. 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 deb...

...r has otherwise become incapable of performing the partner's duties under the partnership agreement. (H) In the case of a partner that is a trust or is acting as a partner by virtue of being a trustee of a trust, distribution of the trust's entire economic interest in the partnership, but not merely by reason of the substitution of a successor trustee; (I) In the case of a partner that is an estate or is actin...

...(A) A partner has the power to dissociate at any time, rightfully or wrongfully, by express will pursuant to division (A) of section 1776.51 of the Revised Code. (B) A partner's dissociation is wrongful only if either of the following applies to that dissociation: (1) It is in breach of an express provision of the partnership agreement. (2) In the case of a partnership for a definite term or particular und...

...(A) If a partner's dissociation results in a dissolution and winding up of the partnership business, sections 1776.61 to 1776.67 of the Revised Code apply. Otherwise, sections 1776.54 to 1776.58 of the Revised Code apply. (B) Upon a partner's dissociation, all of the following apply: (1) The partner's right to participate in the management and conduct of the partnership business terminates, except as otherwi...

...(A) When a partner is dissociated from a partnership and that dissociation does not result in a dissolution and winding up of the partnership business under section 1776.61 of the Revised Code, the partnership shall cause the dissociated partner's interest in the partnership to be purchased for a buyout price determined pursuant to division (B) of this section. (B)(1) The buyout price of a dissociated partner'...

...(A) For two years after a partner dissociates without resulting in a dissolution and winding up of the partnership business, the partnership, including a surviving partnership under section 1776.68 of the Revised Code, is bound by any act of the dissociated partner that would have bound the partnership under section 1776.31 of the Revised Code before dissociation only if, at the time of entering into the transa...

...(A) A partner's dissociation does not of itself discharge the partner's liability for a partnership obligation incurred before dissociation. A dissociated partner is not liable for a partnership obligation incurred after dissociation, except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section. (B) A partner who dissociates without resulting in a dissolution and winding up of the partnership business is liabl...

...(A) A dissociated partner or the partnership may file a statement of dissociation stating the name of the partnership and that the partner is dissociated from the partnership. (B) A statement of dissociation is a limitation on the authority of a dissociated partner for the purposes of divisions (D) and (E) of section 1776.33 of the Revised Code. (C) For the purposes of division (A)(3) of section 1776.55 and ...

...Continued use of a partnership name, or a dissociated partner's name as part thereof, by partners continuing the business does not of itself make the dissociated partner liable for an obligation of the partners or the partnership continuing the business.

...arry on the partnership business in conformity with the partnership agreement. (F) On application by a transferee of a partner's economic interest, a tribunal determines that it is equitable to wind up the partnership business at either of the following times: (1) 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...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, a partnership may continue after dissolution only for the purpose of winding up its business. The partnership is terminated when its business is completed. (B) At any time after the dissolution of a partnership and before the winding up of its business is completed, all of the partners, including any dissociating partner other than a wrongfully dissociating partner...

...tes by mediation or arbitration, and perform other necessary acts.

...Subject to section 1776.65 of the Revised Code, a partnership is bound by a partner's act after dissolution under either of the following conditions: (A) The act is appropriate for winding up the partnership business. (B) If the other party to the transaction did not have notice of the dissolution, the act would have bound the partnership under section 1776.31 of the Revised Code before dissolution.

...(A) After dissolution, a partner who has not wrongfully dissociated may file a statement of dissolution stating the name of the partnership and that the partnership has dissolved and is winding up its business. (B) A statement of dissolution cancels a filed statement of partnership authority for the purposes of division (D) of section 1776.33 of the Revised Code and is a limitation on such authority for the p...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section and in section 1776.36 of the Revised Code, after dissolution a partner is liable to the other partners for the partner's share of any partnership liability incurred under section 1776.64 of the Revised Code. (B) A partner who, with knowledge of the dissolution, incurs a partnership liability under division (B) of section 1776.64 of the Revised ...

...(A) In winding up a partnership's business, any assets of the partnership, including the contributions this section requires the partners to make, shall be applied to discharge or make reasonable provision for its obligations to creditors, including, to the extent permitted by law, partners who are creditors. Any surplus shall be applied to pay in cash the net amount distributable to partners in accordance ...

... from the merger or consolidation, the former partner is deemed to have dissociated as of that effective date of the merger or consolidation and the former partner's liability to third parties is determined in accordance with section 1776.56 of the Revised Code. The filing of a certificate of merger or consolidation from which it is clear that the former partner is not a general partner of the surviving or n...

...d entity, reasonably believing that the former partner is a general partner of the converted entity; (b) If the converted entity is not a partnership then to the extent provided in division (B) of section 1776.56 of the Revised Code, deeming for purposes of this division that a certificate of conversion constitutes a statement of dissociation under section 1776.57 of the Revised Code. (B) If a partner of a con...

...(A) Unless otherwise provided in writing in the partnership agreement of a constituent domestic partnership, all of the following are entitled to relief as dissenting partners as provided in section 1776.77 of the Revised Code: (1) Partners of a domestic partnership that is being merged or consolidated into a surviving or new entity, domestic or foreign, pursuant to section 1776.68 or 1776.69 of the Revised C...