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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3513 - Who may bring action for nullity

The action for nullity of contracts may be brought by those who are principally or subsidiarily obligated by virtue thereof. Persons with capacity cannot, however, allege the incapacity of those with whom they contracted; neither those who caused the intimidation or violence, or employed deceit, or caused the error, can base their action on these defects of the contract.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1254.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3514 - Restoration of objects of contract

When the nullity of an obligation has been declared, the contracting parties shall restore to each other the things which have been the object of the contract with their fruits, and the value with its interest, without prejudice to the provisions contained in the following sections.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1255.
History
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3515 - Restoration of objects of contract—Incapacity of party

When the nullity arises from the incapacity of one of the contracting parties, the incapacitated person is not obliged to make restitution, except to the extent he has profited by the thing or by the sum he may have received.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1256.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3516 - Restoration of objects of contract—Illegality constituting crime or misdemeanor

When the nullity arises from the illegality of the consideration or the object of the contract, if the fact constitutes a crime or misdemeanor common to both contracting parties, they shall have no action against each other and proceedings shall be instituted against them, and, furthermore, the things or sum which may have been the object of the contract shall be applied as prescribed in Title 33, the Penal Code with regard to the goods or instruments of the crime or misdemeanor.
This provision is applicable to the case in which there is a crime or misdemeanor on the part of only one of the contracting parties; but the one who is not guilty may recover what he may have given, and shall not be bound to fulfill what he may have promised.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1257.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3517 - Restoration of objects of contract—Illicit consideration not crime or misdemeanor

If the fact of which the illicit consideration consists does not constitute either a crime or misdemeanor, the following rules shall be observed:
(1) When both parties are guilty, neither of them can recover what he may have given by virtue of the contract, nor claim the fulfilment of what the other party may have offered.
(2) When only one of the contracting parties is guilty, he cannot recover what he may have given by virtue of the contract, nor demand the fulfilment of what may have been offered him. The other party, who has had nothing to do with the illicit consideration, may reclaim what he may have given without being obliged to fulfill what he has offered.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1258.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3518 - Loss of thing ordered returned

Whenever a person, who is obliged by a declaration of nullity to return a thing, cannot return it because it has been lost, he must return the fruits collected and the value which the thing had when lost, with interest from the same date.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1259.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3519 - Failure of party to return thing

While one of the contracting parties does not return that which he is obliged to deliver by virtue of the declaration of nullity, the other cannot be compelled to fulfill, on his part, what is incumbent on him.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1260.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3520 - Extinction of action for nullity when contract confirmed

The action of nullity is extinguished from the moment the contract may have been validly confirmed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1261.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3521 - Contracts which can be confirmed

Only contracts having all the requisites mentioned in section 3391 of this title can be confirmed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1262.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3522 - Express or implied confirmation

The confirmation can be made either expressly or in an implied manner. It shall be understood that there is an implied confirmation when, being aware of the cause of the nullity, and such cause having ceased to exist, the person who may have a right to invoke it should execute an act which necessarily implied his wish to renounce such a right.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1263.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3523 - When consent of parties not required

Confirmation does not require the consent of the contracting parties who are not entitled to exercise the action of nullity.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1264.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3524 - Confirmation purges contract of defects

Confirmation purges the contract of all defects which it may have contained from the moment of its execution.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1265.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART II - Contracts (§§ 3371 — 3525) › Chapter 263 - Nullity of Contracts (§§ 3511 — 3525) › § 3525 - When action for nullity extinguished by loss of thing

The action for nullity of a contract shall also be extinguished when the thing which is the object thereof should be lost by fraud or fault of the person having a right to bring the action.
If the cause of the action should be the incapacity of any of the contracting parties, the loss of the thing shall be no obstacle for the action to prevail, unless it has occurred by fraud or fault on the part of the plaintiff after having acquired capacity.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1266.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3551 - Contracts as to conjugal partnership; absence of contract

Persons who may be joined in matrimony may, before celebrating it, execute contracts, stipulating the conditions for the conjugal partnership with regard to present and future property, without any other limitations than those mentioned in this title.
In the absence of contracts relating to property it shall be understood that the marriage has been contracted under the system of legal conjugal partnership.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1267.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3552 - Stipulations forbidden

In the contracts referred to in the preceding section the contracting parties cannot stipulate anything contrary to law or morality, nor humiliating to the authority within the family pertaining respectively to the future spouses.
All stipulations not in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be considered void.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1268.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3553 - Void stipulations

There shall also be considered as void and as not written in the contracts mentioned in the two preceding sections the stipulations by which the contracting parties in a general manner determine that the property of the spouses shall be submitted to the local laws and special customs and not to the general provisions of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1269.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3554 - Marriage contracts of minors

A minor who can marry in accordance with law may also execute his marriage contract, but it shall be valid only when in its execution the persons designated by law to give consent to the minor to contract marriage take part therein.
In case the marriage contract should be void, because the concurrence and signature of the said persons are lacking and the marriage, however, is valid according to law, it shall be understood that the minor has contracted it under the system of conjugal partnership.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1270.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3555 - Changes in marriage contracts; attendance of parties

In order that any change in the marriage contract be valid it must be made before the celebration of the marriage and in the presence and with the concurrence of the persons who took part in the contract as contracting parties. The attendance of the same witnesses shall not be necessary.
Any of the persons who attended the execution of the original contract can only be substituted by another, or his attendance may not be required when, by reason of death or any other legal reason, at the time of the execution of the new stipulation or the modification of the preceding one, attendance is impossible or should not be necessary according to law.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1271.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3556 - Changes after marriage forbidden

After the marriage has been celebrated, the marriage contract executed prior thereto cannot be changed, whether present or future property is involved.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1272.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3557 - Public instrument required; exceptions

Marriage contracts and modifications made therein must be contained in a public instrument executed before the celebration of the marriage.
Property in the condition referred to in § 3560 of this title is excepted from the preceding rule.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1273.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3558 - Modifications affecting third persons

Any modification which may be made in the marriage contract shall have no legal effect with regard to third persons if it does not include the following conditions:
(1) That in the proper protocol, by a marginal note, reference be made to the notarial act or instrument containing the modification of the previous contract; and
(2) That in case the original contract may be entered in the registry of property, the instrument by which it has been modified, be also entered.
The notary shall state these modifications in the authenticated copies of the stipulations or original contract he may issue, under the penalty of indemnifying the parties for losses and damages should he not do so.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1274.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3559 - Capitulations by incapacitated person

The attendance and [consent] of the guardian designated to such effects shall be indispensable, to ensure the validity of the capitulations granted by a person against whom sentence has been pronounced declaring him/her incapable, according to the provisions of this title and the Code of Civil Procedure.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1275; Jan. 10, 1998, No. 17, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3560 - Contract when property not real estate

Whenever the property brought by the spouses is not real estate, and that of the husband and wife together does not exceed five hundred dollars and there should be no notary in the town of their residence, the marriage contract may be executed before the secretary of the municipal council and two witnesses, who shall state, on their liability, that they know said property has been delivered or that it has been brought to the marriage, as the case may be.
The original contract or contracts shall be preserved in the registry in the archives of the proper municipality.
When, in the property brought to the marriage, whatever its value may be, there should be one or more estates, or the contracts relate to real property, they shall always be executed in a public instrument, before a notary, as prescribed in § 3557 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1276.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3561 - Law governing marriage in foreign country with foreigners

If the marriage is contracted in a foreign country with one of the contracting parties having been born in Puerto Rico and the other one abroad, and they should not declare or stipulate anything with regard to their property, it shall be understood that they marry under the legal rules of the country in which the contracting parties establish their conjugal domicile; taking into account other factors which in all fairness must be considered, such as a conflict of motive or center of conjugal interests, all without prejudice to that which is established in this title with respect to real property.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1277; Mar. 5, 1987, No. 4, p. 12, eff. Mar. 5, 1987.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 267 - General Provisions (§§ 3551 — 3562) › § 3562 - Nullity of contract if marriage does not take place

All that is agreed to in the stipulations or contracts referred to in the preceding sections, in contemplation of a future marriage, shall be void and of no effect in case the marriage does not take place.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1278.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 269 - Gifts by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3581 — 3589) › § 3581 - Gifts by reason of marriage defined

Gifts by reason of marriage are those bestowed before its celebration, in consideration of the same, and in favor of one or of both spouses.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1279.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 269 - Gifts by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3581 — 3589) › § 3582 - Provisions governing

These gifts are governed by the rules established in sections 1981-2053 of this title insofar as they are not modified by the following sections.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1280.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 269 - Gifts by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3581 — 3589) › § 3583 - Bestowal and receipt of gifts by minors

Minors may bestow and receive gifts in their antenuptial contracts, provided they are authorized by persons who must give their consent to contract marriage.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1281.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 269 - Gifts by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3581 — 3589) › § 3584 - Acceptance not required

Acceptance is not required for the validity of such gifts.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1282.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 269 - Gifts by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3581 — 3589) › § 3585 - Amount of gifts by affianced persons

Affianced persons may give each other in their marriage contract as much as the tenth part of their actual property, and with regard to future property in case of death, only a portion within the limit fixed by the provisions of this title relating to testate succession.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1283.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 269 - Gifts by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3581 — 3589) › § 3586 - Gifts must be freed from mortgages and charges

The donor, by reason of marriage, must free the property bestowed as a gift from mortgages and any other charges thereon, except annuities (censos) and easements, unless in the marriage stipulations or contract the contrary may have been specified.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1284.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 269 - Gifts by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3581 — 3589) › § 3587 - Revocation of gifts by reason of marriage

A gift bestowed by reason of marriage may be revoked only in the following cases:
(1) If it should be conditional and the condition should not be fulfilled.
(2) If the marriage should not take place.
(3) If the person should marry without having obtained the consent in accordance with the provisions of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1285.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 269 - Gifts by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3581 — 3589) › § 3588 - Nullity of gifts during marriage

All gifts between spouses bestowed during the marriage shall be void, but for the exceptions established hereinbelow:
(1) Moderate gifts which spouses bestow on each other on festive days for the family.
(2) Gifts consisting of converting any real property, which is the private property of one of the spouses and constitutes their main residence, into community property. This conversion shall be made through a public deed whereby the fact that the converted property constitutes the main residence of the spouses and that there is no other property acquired under the community property regime pursuant to this provision at the time of the gift shall be stated. The gift shall not be returnable in case of death of the gifting spouse.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1286; Oct. 26, 2009, No. 131, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 269 - Gifts by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3581 — 3589) › § 3589 - Gifts to children of spouse

All gifts bestowed during marriage by one of the spouses upon the children, whom the other spouse may have had by another marriage, or upon the person of whom he or she is a presumptive heir, at the time of the gift, shall be void.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1287.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter I - General Provisions (§§ 3621 — 3624) › § 3621 - Conjugal partnership; ownership of earnings and profits

By virtue of the conjugal partnership the earnings or profits indiscriminately obtained by either of the spouses during the marriage shall belong to the husband and the wife, share and share alike, upon the dissolution of the marriage.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1295.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter I - General Provisions (§§ 3621 — 3624) › § 3622 - Beginning of partnership

The conjugal partnership shall always begin on the same day that the marriage is celebrated. Any stipulation to the contrary shall be void.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1296.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter I - General Provisions (§§ 3621 — 3624) › § 3623 - Renunciation

This partnership cannot be renounced during the marriage, except in case of judicial separation.
When the renunciation should take place by reason of a separation, or after the marriage has been dissolved or annulled, said renunciation shall be included in a public instrument, and the creditors shall have the right granted them in § 2783 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1297.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter I - General Provisions (§§ 3621 — 3624) › § 3624 - Rules governing

The conjugal partnership shall be governed by the rules of articles of partnership in all that does not conflict with the express provisions of this chapter.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1298.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter II - Property Belonging to Each Spouse (§§ 3631 — 3632) › § 3631 - Separate property of each spouse

The following is the separate property of the spouses:
(1) That brought to the marriage as his or her own.
(2) That acquired by either of them during the marriage by lucrative title, that is to say, by gift, legacy or descent.
(3) That acquired by right of redemption or by exchange for other property belonging to one of the spouses only.
(4) That bought with money belonging exclusively to the wife or to the husband.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1299.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter II - Property Belonging to Each Spouse (§§ 3631 — 3632) › § 3632 - Credit or pension for life

In case that any credit, payable within a certain number of years, or a pension for life, belongs to either of the spouses, the provisions of §§ 3642 and 3643 of this title shall be observed in order to determine what forms the capital of both the husband and wife.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1300.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter III - Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3641 — 3647) › § 3641 - Property of conjugal partnership

To the conjugal partnership belong:
(1) Property acquired for a valuable consideration during the marriage at the expense of the partnership property, whether the acquisition is made for the partnership or for one of the spouses only.
(2) That obtained by the industry, salaries, or work of the spouses or of either of them.
(3) The fruits, income, or interest collected or accrued during the marriage, coming from the partnership property, or from that which belongs to either one of the spouses.
—Civil Code, 1930, § 1301.
History
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter III - Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3641 — 3647) › § 3642 - Installments of sum belonging to one spouse

Whenever a sum or credit, payable in a certain number of years, belongs to one of the spouses, the sum collected for installments due during the marriage shall not be partnership property, but shall be considered as capital of the husband or of the wife, according to whom the credit belongs.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1302.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter III - Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3641 — 3647) › § 3643 - Usufruct or pension

The right to a usufruct or pension, belonging to one of the spouses, either in perpetuity or for life, shall form part of his or her own property; but the fruits, pensions, and interest due, during the marriage, shall be partnership property.
In this provision is included the usufruct which the spouses have in the property of their children, even though they be of another marriage.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1303.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter III - Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3641 — 3647) › § 3644 - Useful expenses; buildings

The useful expenses made on behalf of the private property of either one of the spouses through advances made by the partnership or by the industry of husband or wife are partnership property.
Buildings constructed during the marriage, on land belonging to one of the spouses shall also belong to the partnership, but the value of the land shall be paid to the spouse owning the same.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1304.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter III - Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3641 — 3647) › § 3645 - Cattle

Whenever the property belonging to the husband or to the wife should consist, in whole or in part, of cattle existing at the time of the dissolution of the partnership, the heads of cattle exceeding the number which were brought to the marriage, shall be considered as partnership property.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1305.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter III - Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3641 — 3647) › § 3646 - Earnings from gambling or other causes exempt from restitution

The earnings obtained by the husband or wife by gambling, or proceeding from other causes exempt from restitution, shall belong to the conjugal partnership, without prejudice in a proper case, to the provisions of Title 33, the Penal Code.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1306.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter III - Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3641 — 3647) › § 3647 - Property of marriage considered partnership property

All the property of the marriage shall be considered as partnership property until it is proven that it belongs exclusively to the husband or to the wife.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1307.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter IV - Charges and Obligations of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3661 — 3664) › § 3661 - Obligations chargeable to community property

Chargeable to the community property shall be:
(1) All debts and obligations contracted during the marriage by either of the spouses.
(2) The arrears or credits deriving during the marriage from obligations encumbering the private property of the spouses as well as the community property.
(3) Minor repairs or mere maintenance repairs made during the marriage on the private property of either of the spouses. Major repairs shall not be chargeable to the community property.
(4) Major or minor repairs of the community property.
(5) The support of the family and the education of the children begotten in common and of those of either of the spouses.
(6) Personal loans incurred by either of the spouses.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1308;.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter IV - Charges and Obligations of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3661 — 3664) › § 3662 - Gifts to children for establishment or profession

The conjugal partnership shall also bear the amount of what has been bestowed as a gift or promised to the children in common by the husband, only for their establishment or for a profession, or by both spouses by common consent, should they not have agreed that it should be paid in whole or in part out of the private property of one of them.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1309.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter IV - Charges and Obligations of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3661 — 3664) › § 3663 - Debts contracted before marriage; fines

The payment of debts contracted by the husband or by the wife, before marriage, shall not be borne by the partnership.
Neither shall it bear the payment of fines or of pecuniary condemnations which may be imposed on either of them.
However, the payment of debts contracted by the husband or by the wife, prior to the marriage, and that of fines and condemnations imposed on either of them, may be claimed against the partnership property, after covering the expenses, mentioned in § 3661 of this title, if the debtor spouse should have no private capital, or were it insufficient; but at the time of the liquidation of the partnership the payments, made for the specified causes, shall be charged to said spouse.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1310.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter IV - Charges and Obligations of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3661 — 3664) › § 3664 - Amounts lost in games

What has been lost and paid for during marriage by either of the spouses, in any kind of game whatsoever, shall not diminish his or her respective share in the partnership.
Whatever has been lost and not paid for by either of the spouses in licit games shall be charged to the conjugal partnership.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1311.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter V - Administration of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3671 — 3673) › § 3672 - Consent of both spouses

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 284 of this title, neither of the two spouses may donate, alienate or bind for a consideration the personal or real property of the community property without the written consent of the other spouse, excepting things for personal or family use in accordance with the social or economic standing of both spouses.
Any disposal or administration act made with respect to said property by either of the spouses in violation of this and any other section of this title shall not affect the other spouse or his heirs.
The spouse engaged in commerce, industry or a profession may, for good cause, acquire or dispose of the personal property used for such purposes without the consent of the other spouse. Said spouse shall, however, be liable for the damages he or she may cause by said acts to the community property. This action shall be exercised exclusively at the time of the dissolution of the community property.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1313;.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter V - Administration of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3671 — 3673) › § 3673 - Disposition by will

Neither husband or wife may dispose by will but of his (or her) half of the conjugal partnership.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1314.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter VI - Dissolution of Conjugal Partnership (§ 3681) › § 3681 - When partnership terminates

The community of goods terminates when the marriage is dissolved in the cases indicated in this title or is declared null.
The spouse who by bad faith has been the cause of the nullity shall not have a share in the common property.
The conjugal partnership shall also terminate in the cases enumerated in § 3712 of this title.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1315.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter VII - Liquidation of Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3691 — 3701) › § 3691 - Inventory of property

Upon the dissolution of the partnership an inventory shall immediately be made; but the same shall not be required for the liquidation:
(1) When, after the partnership has been dissolved, one of the spouses or his or her legal representatives have at the proper time renounced its effects and consequences.
(2) When the separation of the property may have preceded the dissolution of the partnership.
(3) In the case to which the second paragraph of § 3681 of this title refers.
In case of renunciation, the right granted creditors by § 2783 of this title shall always be reserved.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1316.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter VII - Liquidation of Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3691 — 3701) › § 3692 - Property included in inventory; collation

The inventory shall include specifically for the purpose of collating them the sums which, having been paid by conjugal partnership, are to be deducted from the capital of the husband or of the wife.
The amount of the gifts and alienations which must be considered illegal or fraudulent, in accordance with section 3672 of this title, shall also be brought to collation.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1317.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter VII - Liquidation of Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3691 — 3701) › § 3693 - Conjugal couch; clothing

There shall not be included in the inventory the effects constituting the conjugal couch ordinarily used. These effects, as well as the clothing and dresses ordinarily used by the deceased spouse, shall be delivered to the surviving one.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1318.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter VII - Liquidation of Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3691 — 3701) › § 3694 - Capital of husband and wife

After the debts, charges, and obligations of the partnership have been paid, the capital of the husband and of the wife shall be liquidated and paid, insofar as the inventoried estate may reach.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1319.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter VII - Liquidation of Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3691 — 3701) › § 3695 - Assets of conjugal partnership

After the deductions from the inventoried estate specified in the preceding sections have been made, the remainder of the same estate shall constitute the assets of the conjugal partnership.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1320.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter VII - Liquidation of Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3691 — 3701) › § 3696 - Payment of losses or deterioration

The losses or deterioration which the personal property, belonging to either of the spouses, may have suffered even though by a fortuitous event, shall be paid out of the conjugal property, should there be any.
Those suffered by the real property shall not be payable in any case.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1321.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter VII - Liquidation of Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3691 — 3701) › § 3697 - Division of remainder

The net remainder of the partnership property shall be divided, share and share alike, between the husband and the wife, or their respective heirs.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1322.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter VII - Liquidation of Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3691 — 3701) › § 3698 - Mourning apparel of widow

The mourning apparel of the widow shall be paid out of the estate of the inheritance of the husband. The heirs of the husband shall pay it according to his standing and means.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1323.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter VII - Liquidation of Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3691 — 3701) › § 3699 - Rules governing inventory, appraisal, and sale of property

With regard to making the inventory, rules for the appraisal and sale of the property, and all other particulars, not expressly fixed in this chapter, the prescriptions of sections 2801-2825 of this title shall be observed.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1324.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter VII - Liquidation of Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3691 — 3701) › § 3700 - Support of surviving spouse and children

Support shall be given out of the property owned in common to the surviving spouse and to his or her children, pending the liquidation of the inventoried estate and until their share has been delivered to them, but it shall be deducted from their portion insofar as it exceeds what they should have received as fruits or income.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1325.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 273 - Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3621 — 3701) › Subchapter VII - Liquidation of Property of Conjugal Partnership (§§ 3691 — 3701) › § 3701 - Liquidation of partnership property of two or more marriages contracted by same person

Whenever the liquidation of the partnership property of two or more marriages contracted by the same person may have to be made simultaneously in order to determine the funds of each partnership, every kind of proof shall be admitted, in the absence of inventories, and in case of doubt, the partnership property shall be divided between the different partnerships in proportion to the time of their duration and to the property owned by the respective spouses.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1326.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 275 - Separation of Property of Spouses (§§ 3711 — 3717) › § 3711 - When separation of property takes place

In the absence of a specific declaration of the marriage contract, the separation of the property of the spouses, during the marriage, shall not take place except by virtue of a judicial decree.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1327.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 275 - Separation of Property of Spouses (§§ 3711 — 3717) › § 3712 - Reasons for the separation of marital property

A husband and wife may request the separation of marital property, and it shall be decreed, when the spouse of the petitioner has been declared missing, or has given grounds for divorce.
For the separation to be awarded, it shall be sufficient to present the final decree against the guilty or absent spouse in any of the stated cases.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1328; Jan. 10, 1998, No. 17, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 4 - Obligations and Contracts (§§ 2991 — 5305) › PART III - Contracts Relating to Property by Reason of Marriage (§§ 3551 — 3717) › Chapter 275 - Separation of Property of Spouses (§§ 3711 — 3717) › § 3713 - Dissolution of conjugal partnership; mutual support

After the separation of property has been ordered the conjugal partnership shall be dissolved, and its liquidation shall be made according to the provisions of this Code.
Nevertheless, the husband and the wife shall mutually attend to their support during the separation, and to the support of the children, as well as to their education, each one in proportion to his or her respective means.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1329.