§ 708.310.Judgment Rendered Against Partner Or Member of Limited Liability Company

This section opens Article 4 and introduces a narrower remedy than ordinary levy. When a money judgment runs against an individual partner or LLC member, but not against the partnership or LLC itself, the creditor cannot levy directly on the entity's own property — the judgment doesn't reach that far. What the creditor can reach is the debtor's own interest in the partnership or LLC, and the tool for reaching it is a charging order.

The charging order itself is issued under whichever Corporations Code provision fits the entity — § 15907.03 for a limited partnership, § 16504 for a general partnership, or § 17705.03 for a limited liability company. Those statutes, not this title, supply the actual mechanics of what a charging order does and how a court grants one; this section is what authorizes using that mechanism to enforce a money judgment under this title.

This distinction matters because a charging order is deliberately limited. It reaches the debtor's economic interest — typically distributions the entity would otherwise pay the debtor — without letting the creditor seize partnership or LLC property directly or force the entity's dissolution or sale, protections the other partners or members would otherwise lose through no fault of their own.