Section 1: The date on which divorce takes effect

The marriage is dissolved: 1° By the divorce agreement concluded by private deed countersigned by lawyers, on the date on which it becomes enforceable; 2° By the decision granting the divorce, on the date on which it becomes res judicata.

The divorce agreement or judgment may be relied on as against third parties, as regards the property of the spouses, from the day on which the formalities of mention in the margin prescribed by the rules of civil status have been completed.

The divorce agreement or judgment takes effect in the relationship between the spouses, as regards their property: -when it is established by mutual consent by private-signature deed countersigned by lawyers filed with the minutes of a notary, on the date on which the agreement settling all the consequences of the divorce acquires enforceability, unless that agreement stipulates otherwise; -when it is pronounced by mutual consent in the case provided for…

Any obligation contracted by one of the spouses to the charge of the community, any alienation of common property made by one of them within the limit of his powers, subsequent to the application for divorce, shall be declared null, if it is proved that there has been fraud on the rights of the other spouse.