A Broader Charging Order Against Single-Member LLC

Law360, New York (December 22, 2011, 5:38 PM EST) -- Judgment creditors of LLC members usually have the right under state law to obtain a charging order against a member's LLC interest. A charging order mandates that any distributions by the LLC that would otherwise be made to the member be paid instead to the creditor. The charging order provides no benefit, though, if no distributions are made to the LLC's members. And if the judgment debtor is the only member of the LLC, it's unlikely that he or she will cause the LLC to make distributions, since those would have to go to the creditor....

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