In our previous post, Can a Partner Be Held Liable for a Partnership Debt in Texas?, we discussed the Texas Supreme Court’s holding in American Star Energy and Minerals Corporation v. Stowers[1] that a creditor cannot sue individual partners to satisfy a partnership debt until a judgment is passed against the partnership and goes unsatisfied for 90 days. There is another part of the story. The partners argued that the court’s holding imposed “automatic” liability– basically claiming that the court undermined their due process rights on grounds that they should have been named and served in the lawsuit against the partnership so that they would be on notice of their potential liability and have an opportunity to contest it.… Read the rest
