{"id":359,"date":"2026-08-11T15:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/?p=359"},"modified":"2026-08-11T15:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:26:24","slug":"default-llc-rules-allow-any-member-enforce-contribution-obligations-court-chancery-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/2026\/08\/11\/default-llc-rules-allow-any-member-enforce-contribution-obligations-court-chancery-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Default LLC Rules Allow Any Member to Enforce Contribution Obligations, Court of Chancery Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/michaelgonen.html\">Michael Gonen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Delaware Court of Chancery\u2019s recent decision in <em>Tamer Hassanein v. NTO Fund I, et. al.,<\/em> has pointed out a rarely invoked provision of the Delaware LLC Act and Delaware LP Act with the potential to generate unwanted and hard-to-settle litigation. Drafters should strongly consider including prophylactic language in future operating agreements, or when amending existing agreements, to minimize litigation risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/default_llc_rules_allow_any_member_enforce_contribution_obligations_court_chancery_rules_0826.html\">Alert<\/a><\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Gonen The Delaware Court of Chancery\u2019s recent decision in Tamer Hassanein v. NTO Fund I, et. al., has pointed out a rarely invoked provision of the Delaware LLC Act and Delaware LP Act with the potential to generate unwanted and hard-to-settle litigation. Drafters should strongly consider including prophylactic language in future operating agreements, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/2026\/08\/11\/default-llc-rules-allow-any-member-enforce-contribution-obligations-court-chancery-rules\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Default LLC Rules Allow Any Member to Enforce Contribution Obligations, Court of Chancery Rules&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[90,203,204],"ppma_author":[166],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-delaware-court-of-chancery","tag-hassanein","tag-tooley"],"authors":[{"term_id":166,"user_id":598,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mbgonen","display_name":"Michael Gonen","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/gonenmichael-100x100.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Gonen","first_name":"Michael","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/michaelgonen.html","description":"<A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/michaelgonen.html\">Read Michael's Bio<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}