§ 28 — Creditor's remedy to reach partner's interest in partnership

Massachusetts § 28

• Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
• Part I: ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
• Title XV: REGULATION OF TRADE
• Ch. 108A: PARTNERSHIPS

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Section 28. (1) On due application to the superior court by any judgment creditor of a partner, such court may charge the interest of the debtor partner with payment of the unsatisfied amount of such judgment debt with interest thereon; and may then or later appoint a receiver of his share of the profits, and of any other money due or to fall due to him in respect of the partnership, and make all other orders, directions, accounts and inquiries which the debtor partner might have made, or which the circumstances of the case may require.(2) The interest charged may be redeemed at any time before foreclosure, or in case of a sale being directed by the court may be purchased without thereby causing a dissolution:(a) With separate property, by any one or more of the partners, or(b) With partnership property, by any one or more of the partners with the consent of all the partners whose interests are not so charged or sold.(3) Nothing in this chapter shall be held to deprive a partner of his right, if any, under the exemption laws, as regards his interest in the partnership.