415. The family patrimony is composed of the following property owned by one or the other of the spouses: the residences of the family or the rights which confer use of them, the movable property with which they are furnished or decorated and which serves for the use of the household, the motor vehicles used for family travel and the benefits accrued during the marriage under a retirement plan.
This patrimony also includes the registered earnings, during the marriage, of each spouse pursuant to the Act respecting the Québec Pension Plan or to similar plans.
The earnings contemplated in the second paragraph and accrued benefits under a retirement plan governed or established by an Act which grants a right to death benefits to the surviving spouse where the marriage is dissolved as a result of death are, however, excluded from the family patrimony.
Property devolved to one of the spouses by succession or gift before or during the marriage is also excluded from the family patrimony.
For the purposes of the rules on family patrimony, a retirement plan is any of the following:
— a plan governed by the Act respecting Supplemental Pension Plans or that would be governed thereby if it applied where the spouse works;
— a retirement plan governed by a similar Act of a legislative jurisdiction other than the Parliament of Québec;
— a plan established by an Act of the Parliament of Québec or of another legislative jurisdiction;
— a retirement-savings plan;
— any other retirement-savings instrument, including an annuity contract, into which sums from any of such plans have been transferred.