The Florida Senate

620.152  Assignment of partnership interest.--

(1)  Unless otherwise provided in the partnership agreement:

(a)  A partnership interest is assignable in whole or in part;

(b)  An assignment of a partnership interest does not dissolve a limited partnership or entitle the assignee to become or to exercise any rights or powers of a partner;

(c)  An assignment entitles the assignee to share in such profits and losses, to receive such distribution or distributions, and to receive such allocation of income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit or similar item to which the assignor was entitled, to the extent assigned; and

(d)  A partner ceases to be a partner and to have the power to exercise any rights or powers of a partner upon assignment of all of his or her partnership interests.

(2)  The partnership agreement may provide that a partner's interest in a limited partnership may be evidenced by a certificate of partnership interest issued by the limited partnership and may also provide for the assignment or transfer of any partnership interest represented by such a certificate and make other provisions with respect to such certificates.

History.--s. 42, ch. 86-263; s. 131, ch. 97-102.