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The marriage contract must determine the assets to which the option stipulated in favour of the survivor will apply. It may lay down bases of valuation and terms of payment, except for the reduction i…
The spouses may declare, in a general manner, that they intend to marry under one of the regimes provided for in this Code. In the absence of special stipulations that derogate from or modify the comm…
Res judicata applies only to what is the subject of the judgment. The thing sought must be the same; the claim must be based on the same cause of action; the claim must be between the same parties, an…
A person who, without being obliged to do so, knowingly and usefully manages the business of another, without the knowledge or opposition of the master of that business, is subject, in the performance…
They may, however, stipulate that on the dissolution of the marriage by the death of one of them, the surviving spouse shall have the option of acquiring or, as the case may be, having attributed to h…
The judicial administration of evidence and disputes relating thereto are governed by the code of civil procedure.
The community, which is established in the absence of a contract or by the simple declaration that one is marrying under the community regime, is subject to the rules explained in the three sections t…
Matrimonial agreements must be drawn up before the marriage is celebrated and can only take effect on the day of that celebration.
The spouses may agree, in the interests of the family, to modify their matrimonial property regime, or even change it entirely, by notarial deed. On pain of nullity, the notarial deed contains the liq…
All matrimonial agreements shall be drawn up by deed before a notary, in the presence and with the simultaneous consent of all the persons who are parties thereto or their proxies. When the contract i…
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