French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Community liabilities
Article 1412
Reward is due to the community that has discharged a spouse's personal debt.
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Reward is due to the community that has discharged a spouse's personal debt.
If one of the spouses has exceeded his or her powers over the community property, the other, unless he or she has ratified the act, may apply for its annulment. The action for annulment is open to the…
The creditors of a spouse may not apply on his or her behalf for separation as to property.
Withdrawals are made first from cash, then from movables, and secondarily from community property. The spouse making the deduction has the right to choose which movables and immovables he will deduct.…
…place own property, as well as property acquired in use or replacement, in accordance with articles 1434 and 1435.
After all deductions have been made from the estate, the surplus is divided equally between the spouses. If a community property is an annex to another property owned by one of the spouses, or if it i…
After the partition has been consummated, if either spouse is a personal creditor of the other, such as where the price of his or her property has been used to pay a personal debt of his or her spouse…
If the use or reinvestment is made in advance, the property acquired is the community's own, provided that the sums expected from the community's own assets are paid to the community within five years…
Whichever of the two spouses is sued for the whole of a community debt by the effect of a mortgage on the property which has fallen to him in partition, has by right his recourse against the other for…
The community is composed passively:-finally, of the maintenance owed by the spouses and the debts contracted by them for the upkeep of the household and the education of the children, in accordance w…
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