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Paragraph 3: Obligations and contributions to liabilities after dissolution.

Article 1483 of the French Civil Code

Each of the spouses may only be sued for half of the debts that had entered the community on the part of his or her spouse. After the partition and except in the case of concealment, he or she is only liable up to the amount of his or her emolument provided that there has been an inventory, and subject to rendering an account both of the contents of this…

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Article 1484 of the French Civil Code

The inventory provided for in the preceding article must be carried out in the manner prescribed by the Code of Civil Procedure, in the presence of both spouses or of the other spouse duly summoned. It must be closed within nine months of the day on which the community was dissolved, unless an extension is granted by the interim relief judge. It must be declared sincere and true before the…

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Article 1485 of the French Civil Code

Each of the spouses contributes half to the community debts for which no recompense was due, as well as to the costs of sealing, inventory, sale of furniture, liquidation, licitation and partition. He alone bears the debts that had become common only unless recompense is payable by him.

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Article 1486 of the French Civil Code

A spouse who may avail himself of the benefit of article 1483, second paragraph, does not contribute more than his emolument to the debts which entered the community under the head of the other spouse, unless they are debts for which he would have owed a reward.

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Article 1489 of the French Civil Code

Whichever of the two spouses is sued for the whole of a community debt by the effect of a mortgage on the property which has fallen to him in partition, has by right his recourse against the other for half of that debt. .

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Article 1490 of the French Civil Code

The provisions of the preceding articles shall not prevent a clause in the partition, without prejudice to the rights of third parties, from obliging either spouse to pay a proportion of debts other than that fixed above, or even to pay the liabilities in full.

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