Article 1577
The creditor spouse shall pursue recovery of his or her participation claim first against existing property and subsidiarily, starting with the most recent alienations, against the property referred t…
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The creditor spouse shall pursue recovery of his or her participation claim first against existing property and subsidiarily, starting with the most recent alienations, against the property referred t…
If a spouse's final assets are less than his or her original assets, the shortfall is borne entirely by that spouse. If it is greater, the increase represents the net acquests and gives rise to partic…
…rties is master to dispose of them, He who gave them, by losing them, And he who received them, by returning double.
The spouses may derogate from the equal division established by law.
The advantages that either spouse may derive from the clauses of a community agreement, as well as those that may result from the commingling of movables or debts, are not regarded as gifts. However,…
One of the spouses is not liable for the failure to use or reuse the property of the other, unless he or she has interfered in the disposal or collection operations, or it is proved that the funds wer…
…dissolution of the marriage by the death of one of the spouses, the division of undivided property between spouses separated by property, in all that concerns its forms, the maintenance of the indivis…
At the dissolution of the matrimonial property regime, if the parties do not agree to proceed with the liquidation by agreement, one of them may apply to the court for it to be proceeded with judicial…
Where goods are not sold en bloc, but by weight, count or measure, the sale is not perfected, in the sense that the things sold are at the seller's risk until they are weighed, counted or measured; bu…
A promise of sale is equivalent to a sale when there is mutual consent by both parties to the property and the price. If this promise applies to land already subdivided or to be subdivided, its accept…
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