PROPERTY
Marriage changes everything including the property relationship. Here are the
basic rules on the effect of marriage to property relationship:
-the spouse cannot sell, donate, lease, mortgage or exchnage properties to each
other;
-in the case of pre-nuptial agreement where the spouses' properties are
separated, either spouse is not allowed to donate more than one-fifth of this or
her property to the other spouse;
-when a property is donated, given or inherited via gratuitous act to either spouse
within their marriage, the receiving spouse reserves the right to own the property
exclusively.
-if there was a pre-nuptial agreement, the terms and conditions within that pre-
nuptial agreement shall apply;
-special cases such as local customs and traditions, may also be applied.
CONJUGAL PROPERTY
-when property is acquire before the husband got married, the property shall be
exclusively his;
-when property is acquired before the wife got married, the property will be
exclusively hers;
-marriage joins exclusive properties as part of one estate within the conjugal
property and the fruits of those properties shall be shared between the husband
and wife for the duration of their marriage;
-in the event the husband and wife file for divorce, annulment or legal separation,
the husband's exclusive property, acquired before the marriage and all its fruits
shall not be included in the conjugal property and will be exclusively owned by
him; the same theory applies to the exclusive property of the wife;
-when the spouses filed for separation of properties in court, the properties that
the husband and the wife acquired during their marriage will be considered part
of their conjugal property and this will be split in half between the wife and the
husband.