If one of the spouses is permanently unable to express his or her will, or if his or her management of the community attests to incapacity or fraud, the other spouse may apply to the courts to be substituted for him or her in the exercise of his or her powers. The provisions of articles 1445 to 1447 are applicable to this application.
The spouse, thus empowered by justice, has the same powers as the spouse he or she replaces would have had; he or she passes with the authorisation of justice the acts for which his or her consent would have been required if there had been no substitution.
The spouse deprived of his or her powers may subsequently apply to the court for their restitution, establishing that their transfer to the other spouse is no longer justified.