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Book 4 · Family law  ›  Subchapter 5 · Continued community of property › Section 1499

Obligations borne by the surviving spouse

In the partitioning, the following is incumbent on the surviving spouse:

1.  the obligations of the common matrimonial property for which they were responsible at the beginning of the continued community of property for which the common matrimonial property was not liable or which they bore as between the spouses;

2.  the obligations of the common matrimonial property that arise after the beginning of the continued community of property which, if they had arisen as the surviving spouse’s personal expenses during the period of marital community of property, would have fallen on the surviving spouse as between the spouses;

3.  an advancement which they promised or granted to a descendant entitled to a share in excess of the amount corresponding to the common matrimonial property or which they promised or granted to a descendant not entitled to a share.

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