Legal Question in Business Law in Texas
non payment of partner shares
I'm broke. Can I sue for compensitory/punitive damages? I was once made a limited partner in a business with promises of profit sharing from the technical work I performed. That work was greatly responsible for $4,000,000.00 in sales. The company broke up, yet the owner and his family continue to benefit from what I accomplished. I was never compensated as promised and when the company broke up, I was left with nothing and have no means of compensating an attorney for required services.
The technical work involed the developement of manufacturing processes, technical research, and technical writtings descriptive of the technologies developed.
3 Answers from Attorneys
Re: non payment of partner shares
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Re: non payment of partner shares
You do not give enough facts to evaluate your question adequately. It is possible that there has been a breach of fiduciary duty or misappropriation. Because it appears that there is enough involved, you should be able to get an attorney to review your facts without charge to determine if your claim can be pursued on a as a contingent fee case. You need to do something immediately.
Charles G. White
http://www.cwhitelaw.com
Re: non payment of partner shares
If you were only a limited partner, all you can get is the prorata portion of whatever profits there were when the limited partnership dissolved. If you were a general partner, and there was a clear breach of fiduciary duty, then you might be able to get punitive damages.
You'd almost need a written agreement to have a good chance at recovery. If it was just a handshake deal, the nature of the agreement would have to be proven up by collateral means, if at all possible.
Whether it would be handled on a purely contingent basis depends upon what you have to prove your case, and what the nature and assets are of the bad actor.
You will need to go over what records you have before you sit down with counsel to examine your situation.
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