Delaware Code

6 Del. C. § 18-304 (2026)

Events of bankruptcy

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A person ceases to be a member of a limited liability company upon the happening of any of the following events:

(1) Unless otherwise provided in a limited liability company agreement, or with the consent of all members, a member:

a. Makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors;

b. Files a voluntary petition in bankruptcy;

c. Is adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or has entered against the member an order for relief, in any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding;

d. Files a petition or answer seeking for the member any reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar relief under any statute, law or regulation;

e. Files an answer or other pleading admitting or failing to contest the material allegations of a petition filed against the member in any proceeding of this nature;

f. Seeks, consents to or acquiesces in the appointment of a trustee, receiver or liquidator of the member or of all or any substantial part of the member’s properties; or

(2) Unless otherwise provided in a limited liability company agreement, or with the consent of all members, 120 days after the commencement of any proceeding against the member seeking reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar relief under any statute, law or regulation, if the proceeding has not been dismissed, or if within 90 days after the appointment without the member’s consent or acquiescence of a trustee, receiver or liquidator of the member or of all or any substantial part of the member’s properties, the appointment is not vacated or stayed, or within 90 days after the expiration of any such stay, the appointment is not vacated.

68 Del. Laws, c. 434, §  170 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  180 Del. Laws, c. 271, § 5
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 2019–2024 · leading case: James A. Zachman v. Real Time Cloud Servs., LLC (Del. Ch. 2020).
James A. Zachman v. Real Time Cloud Servs., LLC (Del. Ch. 2020). · cites it 4× “118 At that bench ruling, I determined that the Plaintiff had been terminated by operation of law under 6 Del. C. § 18-304 due to his personal bankruptcy in 2010.”
Zachman v. Real Time Cloud Servs. (Del. 2021). · cites it 3× “The Court of Chancery also held that, under 6 Del. C. § 18-304, Zachman “ceased to be a member of the company upon filing bankruptcy in May of 2010” and that the “defendants promptly removed plaintiff or acknowledged his removal by operation of law as a member upon becoming…”
Kathleen Coyne v. Fusion Healthworks, LLC (Del. Ch. 2019). “6 Del. C. § 18-304 provides a similar default rule that “[a] person ceases to be a member of a limited liability company upon” filing “a voluntary petition in bankruptcy.”
Peter A. Nilolazzi v. Laura L. Bone (Mo. Ct. App. 2019). “Section 18-304(1)(d) (providing for involuntary withdrawal when a member “[fliles a petition or answer seeking for the member any reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar relief’) (emphasis added).”
Levine v. B & R Acquisition Partners, LLC & JHM Lending Ventures, LLC (N.D.N.Y. 2024). “] 6 Del. C. § 18-304(1). Appellants argue that the Bankruptcy Court failed to consider the clause, "or with the consent of all members," which would alter the decision because "Roglieri filed his own voluntary bankruptcy petition with the Bankruptcy Court.”
In Re: James Zachman v. State of Delaware (9th Cir. 2024). “In a bench ruling on July 28, 2016, the Delaware Chancery Court held that Zachman’s membership in Real Time Data “had been terminated by operation of law under 6 Del. C. § 18-304 due to his personal bankruptcy in 2010.”
— 6 Del. C. § 18-304(1) — 1 case
Levine v. B & R Acquisition Partners, LLC & JHM Lending Ventures, LLC (N.D.N.Y. 2024). “] 6 Del. C. § 18-304(1). Appellants argue that the Bankruptcy Court failed to consider the clause, "or with the consent of all members," which would alter the decision because "Roglieri filed his own voluntary bankruptcy petition with the Bankruptcy Court.”
— 6 Del. C. § 18-304(1)(d) — 1 case
Peter A. Nilolazzi v. Laura L. Bone (Mo. Ct. App. 2019). “Section 18-304(1)(d) (providing for involuntary withdrawal when a member “[fliles a petition or answer seeking for the member any reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar relief’) (emphasis added).”
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