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Cal. Corporations Code § 16100 (2026)
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This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Partnership Act of 1994.
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Cited in 21
cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1999–2025 · leading case: Bustamante v. Intuit, Inc., 2006 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6227 (Cal. Ct. App. 2006).
Bustamante v. Intuit, Inc., 2006 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6227 (Cal. Ct. App. 2006). “Construing the applicable provisions of the Uniform Partnership Act (Corp. Code, § 16100 et seq.), the appellate court held that “parties who expressly agree to associate as co-owners with the intent to carry on a business for profit, have established a partnership.”
Dickson, Carlson & Campillo v. Pole, 2000 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 7305 (Cal. Ct. App. 2000). “7 The Ml discussion of this distinction by Pomeroy is also instructive: “In applying the [‘do equity’] maxim, He who seeks equity must do equity, as a general rule regulating the action of courts, it is necessarily assumed that different equitable rights have arisen from the…”
Holmes v. Lerner, 88 Cal. Rptr. 2d 130 (Cal. Ct. App. 1999). “) That statutory predecessor of the Uniform Partnership Act (UPA, Corp. Code § 16100 et seq.) defined a partnership as: “ ‘ “.”
In re Marriage of Lafkas, 237 Cal. App. 4th 921 (Cal. Ct. App. 2015). “Effective January 1, 1997, the UPA was repealed and replaced with the Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 (UPA 1994) (Corp. Code, § 16100 et seq.), but the former act governs rights that accrued or actions that commenced prior to January 1, 1997 (Corp.”
Heller Ehrman LLP v. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, 830 F.3d 964 (9th Cir. 2016). “It replaced former section § 15021(1), which had provided that partners had a fiduciary duty to account for benefits and profits to the other partners, with § 16404(b)(1), which sets forth a partner’s fiduciary duty “[t]o account to the partnership and hold as trustee for it any…”
In Re Lona, 393 B.R. 1 (Bankr. N.D. Cal. 2008). “Partnership, in General In California, partnerships formed after 1996 are governed by California’s Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 (the “UPA”) (Cal. Corp.Code § 16100, et seq.). Under the UPA, liability for the debts of a partnership may be premised on an actual partnership…”
Han v. Hallberg, 247 Cal. Rptr. 3d 526 (Cal. Ct. App. 5th 2019). “While a trust cannot act in its own name and must always act through its trustee, a trust is a "person" that may *625 associate in a partnership under the Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 (UPA; Corp. Code, § 16100 et seq. ), based on the plain language of the UPA's definition of…”
Elias Real Est., LLC v. Tseng, 67 Cal. Rptr. 3d 360 (Cal. Ct. App. 2007). “1 Corporations Code, former section 15009 was amended and renumbered as 16301 when the Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 (Corp. Code, § 16100 et seq.) was adopted.”
Am. Equity Ins. Co. v. Beck, 108 Cal. Rptr. 2d 728 (Cal. Ct. App. 2001). “A092221) Standing in the shoes of its insured, American Equity brought a claim in intervention against Beck, seeking contribution from Beck under the Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 (Corp.Code, § 16100 et seq.). [1] American Equity claimed that under joint venture principles…”
Wickline v. Schweder CA4/1 (Cal. Ct. App. 2025). “We concluded, however, that the trial court erred if it meant to use the word “terminated” to indicate either (1) a termination of the partnership under the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (Corp. Code, § 16100 et seq.) (RUPA), which governs here; or (2) a termination due to…”
Wickline v. Schweder CA4/1 (Cal. Ct. App. 2023). “As Wickline argues, because it is a partnership, the business relationship between him and Schweder is governed by the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (Corp. Code, § 16100 et seq.) (RUPA).13 RUPA sets forth the exclusive steps that must occur for a partnership to be terminated:…”
Han v. Hallberg (Cal. Ct. App. 2019). “While a trust cannot act in its own name and must always act through its trustee, a trust is a “person” that may associate in a partnership under the Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 (UPA; Corp. Code, § 16100 et seq.), based on the plain language of the UPA’s definition of…”
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