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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 620
PARTNERSHIP LAWS
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F.S. 620.8801
620.8801 Events causing dissolution and winding up of partnership business.A partnership is dissolved, and its business must be wound up, only upon the occurrence of any of the following events:
(1) In a partnership at will, the partnership’s having notice from a partner, other than a partner who is dissociated under s. 620.8601(2)-(10), of such partner’s express will to withdraw as a partner, or withdraw on a later date specified by the partner;
(2) In a partnership for a definite term or particular undertaking:
(a) Within 90 days after a partner’s dissociation by death or otherwise under s. 620.8601(6)-(10) or wrongful dissociation under s. 620.8602(2), the express will of at least half of the remaining partners to wind up the partnership business, for which purpose a partner’s rightful dissociation pursuant to s. 620.8602(2)(b)1. constitutes the expression of that partner’s will to wind up the partnership business;
(b) The express will of all of the partners to wind up the partnership’s business; or
(c) The expiration of the term or the completion of the undertaking;
(3) An event agreed to in the partnership agreement resulting in the winding up of the partnership business;
(4) An event which makes it unlawful for all or substantially all of the business of the partnership to be continued, provided, a cure of the illegality, within 90 days after notice to the partnership of the event, is effective retroactively to the date of the event for purposes of this section;
(5) On application by a partner, a judicial determination that:
(a) The economic purpose of the partnership is likely to be unreasonably frustrated;
(b) Another partner has engaged in conduct relating to the partnership business which makes it not reasonably practicable to carry on the business in partnership with such partner; or
(c) It is not otherwise reasonably practicable to carry on the partnership business in conformity with the partnership agreement; or
(6) On application by a transferee of a partner’s transferable interest, a judicial determination that it is equitable to wind up the partnership business:
(a) 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 of the transfer or entry of the charging order that gave rise to the transfer; or
(b) At any time, if the partnership was a partnership at will at the time of the transfer or entry of the charging order that gave rise to the transfer.
History.s. 13, ch. 95-242; s. 15, ch. 99-285.

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Cases Citing Statute 620.8801

Total Results: 5

Acoustic Innovations, Inc. v. Schafer

976 So. 2d 1139, 2008 WL 441631

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 20, 2008 | Docket: 1680362

Cited 27 times | Published

Accounting and Dissolution of Acoustic, pursuant to § 620.8801, et. seq., Florida Statutes. Count III: Common

Corporate Exp. Office Products, Inc. v. Phillips

847 So. 2d 406, 28 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 321, 19 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 1505, 2003 Fla. LEXIS 521, 2003 WL 1883697

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Apr 17, 2003 | Docket: 1290227

Cited 24 times | Published

matter of law and a new partnership is formed. See § 620.8801(1), Fla. Stat. (2002) (stating *411 that the

Larmoyeux v. Montgomery

963 So. 2d 813, 2007 WL 2189079

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Aug 1, 2007 | Docket: 1697319

Cited 6 times | Published

only "dissolves" in certain circumstances. See § 620.8801, Fla. Stat. (2001); see also Unif. P'Ship Act

Fernandez v. Basil Yates, M.D., P.A.

145 So. 3d 141, 2014 WL 2756526, 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 9225

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jun 18, 2014 | Docket: 60242633

Cited 2 times | Published

business partnership for more than four years. Section 620.8801(5)(b) authorizes the Court to dissolve a partnership

horizon/cms Healthcare v. Southern Oaks

732 So. 2d 1156, 1999 WL 218410

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 16, 1999 | Docket: 1513351

Published

the dissolutions as rightful or wrongful. Section 620.8801, "Events causing dissolution and winding up