Community Property
La. C.C. art. 2336 — each spouse owns a present undivided half of everything acquired during the marriage
Half each. Each spouse owns a present undivided one half interest in the community property. It cannot be partitioned by a court until the regime ends, though the spouses may agree to partition it themselves.
- Community: what either spouse acquires by effort, skill or industry during the marriage, what is bought with community things, gifts to both spouses, and the fruits of community property.
- Separate: what a spouse owned before the community began, and what a spouse receives by inheritance or a gift to that spouse alone.
- Separate: what is bought with separate things, when the community money used was inconsequential by comparison.
Sources for this section (3)
- La. C.C. art. 2336 — Ownership of community property
- La. C.C. art. 2338 — Community property
- La. C.C. art. 2341 — Separate property
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