521.12. A civil union is dissolved by the death of either spouse. It is also dissolved by a court judgment or by a joint notarial declaration where the spouses’ will to share a community of life is irretrievably undermined.
A civil union is also dissolved by the marriage of the spouses to one another. The sole consequence of the dissolution is the severing of the bond of civil union. The effects of the civil union are maintained and are considered to be effects of the marriage from the date of the civil union, and the civil union regime of the spouses becomes the matrimonial regime, unless they have made changes to it by marriage contract.
2002, c. 6, s. 27; 2004, c. 23, s. 7; I.N. 2014-05-01; I.N. 2015-11-01; 2016, c. 4, s. 73.