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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R355-1-1

Where the statements, tables or documents referred to in Article L. 355-1 are based on accounting data, the balances of the accounts used by the company must relate to them, either directly or by aggr…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1448

The spouse who has obtained separation as to property must contribute, in proportion to his or her faculties and those of his or her spouse, both to the expenses of the household and to those of the e…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1445

…l Procedure. The judgment pronouncing separation of property shall go back, as regards its effects, to the day of the application. A mention of the judgment shall be made in the margin of the marriage…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1449

…eq. The court, in pronouncing the separation, may order that a spouse pay his or her contribution into the hands of his or her spouse, who will henceforth assume sole responsibility with regard to thi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1446

The creditors of a spouse may not apply on his or her behalf for separation as to property.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1441

…of the spouses; 2° by declared absence; 3° by divorce; 4° by legal separation; 5° by separation as to property; 6° by change of matrimonial regime.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1451

…divorce decree modify the agreement if the consequences of the divorce fixed by that decree call into question the bases of the liquidation and partition.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1447

When the action for separation of property has been brought, the creditors may summon the spouses by lawyer-to-lawyer deed to communicate the application and supporting documents to them. They may eve…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1443

If, through one spouse's disorderly affairs, maladministration or misconduct, it appears that the maintenance of the community jeopardises the interests of the other spouse, the latter may pursue the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1442

There can be no continuation of the community, notwithstanding any agreements to the contrary. Either spouse may request, where appropriate, that, in their mutual relations, the effect of the dissolut…

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