Assume that because of a new law, the types of significant transactions a partnership engages in are no longer lawful. Two of the five partners wish to wind up and terminate the partnership. Discuss the following:

1. Can these two partners require the partnership to be terminated?
2. Discuss the accounting for a liquidation where there is no deficit.
3. Discuss how the accounting differs if there is a deficit in one of the partners capital accounts
4. How would the accounting for a liquidation differ for a lump-sum payment vs. installment payments?