Community Property

  

Property owned jointly by both spouses, particularly in community property states. Think: Blue ones.

That property (not just land...can be a yacht, a jet, jewelry, a Warhol) remains community property until the marriage ends via divorce, death, or confirmed alien abduction.

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Finance: What is a limited partnership?1 Views

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Finance allah shmoop what is a limited partnership Well a

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limited partnership is not the qualitative assessment of mole arian

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curly here woop woop and yes shmoop alright Rather a

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limited partner is an investment company run by a general

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partner with clear lines of demarcation as it relates to

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risk fiduciary duty and management responsibilities like of the day

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to day investing or whatever the partnership does When you

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think limited partnership think things like a venture capital company

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or venture capital partnerships like one where you have a

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dozen experts who come together with long track records of

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identifying early stage growth companies usually deep in technology at

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least here in silicon valley Together they are the general

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partners of the partnership the generals they're responsible for the

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day to day management of the firm and in theory

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they have unlimited personal liability Should something go terribly terribly

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wrong the limited partners are their investors the people who

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give them money to make more money General partners raise

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money for their funds by getting limited apartments to invest

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in them So what is limited about this Well the

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liability to the investors as long as those investing in

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the limited liability partnership Don't operate the firm or manage

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it or deal with day to day issues that come

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up well then those limited partners are fully shielded from

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any liability Should you know something go terribly terribly wrong

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Although if your limited partner in a company that's designed

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a nuclear power blender that spend just a little too

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