Book I: Individuals

Partners bound by a civil solidarity pact undertake to live together and to provide mutual material aid and assistance. If the partners do not agree otherwise, material assistance is proportional to their respective means. The partners are jointly and severally liable to third parties for debts contracted by one of them for everyday needs. However, this joint and several liability does not apply to manifestly excessive expenses. Nor does it…

Unless otherwise provided in the agreement referred to in the third paragraph of Article 515-3, each of the partners retains the administration, enjoyment and free disposal of his or her personal property. Each remains solely liable for personal debts arising before or during the pact, except in the case of the last paragraph of article 515-4. Each partner may prove by any means, both to his partner and to third…

The partners may, in the initial agreement or in an amending agreement, choose to make the property they acquire, together or separately, subject to the joint ownership regime as from the registration of these agreements. Such property is then deemed to be jointly owned by half, with no recourse by either partner against the other on the grounds of unequal contribution.

However, the exclusive property of each partner remains: 1° Money received by each of the partners, in any capacity whatsoever, subsequent to the conclusion of the pact and not used to acquire property; 2° Property created and its accessories ; 3° Property of a personal nature; 4° Property or portions of property acquired with money belonging to a partner prior to the registration of the initial or amending agreement under…

In the absence of provisions to the contrary in the agreement, each partner is manager of the undivided property and may exercise the powers recognised by articles 1873-6 to 1873-8. For the administration of undivided property, the partners may enter into an agreement relating to the exercise of their undivided rights under the conditions set out in articles 1873-1 to 1873-15. On pain of being unenforceable, this agreement is, on…

The provisions of articles 831,831-2, 832-3 and 832-4 are applicable between partners in a civil solidarity pact in the event of its dissolution. The provisions of the first paragraph of Article 831-3 are applicable to the surviving partner where the deceased has expressly so provided by will. Where the civil solidarity pact is terminated by the death of one of the partners, the survivor may avail himself of the provisions…

The civil solidarity pact is dissolved by the death of one of the partners or by the marriage of the partners or one of them. In this case, dissolution takes effect on the date of the event. The civil registrar of the place of registration of the civil solidarity pact or the instrumental notary who registered the pact, informed of the marriage or death by the competent civil registrar, registers…

The conditions of formation and the effects of a registered partnership as well as the causes and effects of its dissolution are subject to the substantive provisions of the State of the authority which registered it.