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Article 1472 of the French Civil Code

In the event of insufficiency of the community, the levies of each spouse are proportional to the amount of the rewards due to him or her.

However, if the insufficiency of the community is attributable to the fault of one of the spouses, the other spouse may exercise his or her levies before him or her on all the community property; he or she may exercise them subsidiarily on the own property of the spouse responsible.

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Article 1472

En cas d’insuffisance de la communauté, les prélèvements de chaque époux sont proportionnels au montant des récompenses qui lui sont dues.

Toutefois, si l’insuffisance de la communauté est imputable à la faute de l’un des époux, l’autre conjoint peut exercer ses prélèvements avant lui sur l’ensemble des biens communs ; il peut les exercer subsidiairement sur les biens propres de l’époux responsable.

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