A partnership interest is personal property.

     Except as provided in the partnership agreement: (i) a partnership interest is assignable in whole or in part; (ii) an assignment of a partnership interest does not dissolve a limited partnership or entitle the assignee to become or to exercise any rights of a partner; (iii) an assignment entitles the assignee to receive, to the extent assigned, only the distribution to which the assignor would be entitled.

     Upon application to a court of competent jurisdiction by any judgment creditor of a partner, the court may charge the partnership interest of the partner with payment of the unsatisfied amount of the judgment with interest. To the extent so charged, the judgment creditor has only the rights of an assignee of the partnership interest. This act does not deprive any partner of the benefit of any exemptions provided by law applicable to his or her partnership interest.

    (a) An assignee of a partnership interest, including an assignee of a general partner, may become a limited partner if and to the extent that (1) the assignor gives the assignee that right in accordance with authority described in the certificate of limited partnership, or (2) all other partners consent.

    (b) An assignee who has become a limited partner has, to the extent assigned, the rights and powers, and is subject to the restrictions and liabilities, of a limited partner under the partnership agreement and this act. An assignee who becomes a limited partner also is liable for the obligations of the assignor to make and return contributions as provided in article 6. However, the assignee is not obligated for liabilities unknown to the assignee at the time the assignee became a limited partner and which could not be ascertained from the certificate of limited partnership.

    (c) If an assignee of a partnership interest becomes a limited partner, the assignor is not released from his or her liability to the limited partnership under sections 207 and 502.

     If a partner who is an individual dies or a court of competent jurisdiction adjudges the partner to be unable to manage his or her property or incompetent to manage his or her person or property, the partner's personal representative, executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, or other legal representative may exercise all the partner's rights for the purpose of settling the partner's estate or administering his or her property, including any power the partner had to give an assignee the right to become a limited partner. If a partner is a corporation, trust, or other entity, and is dissolved or terminated, the powers of that partner may be exercised by its legal representative or successor.