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Section 521.43
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In force: 2025-06-30
521.43. A spouse may, from the end of the parental union, apply to the court for an order directing the other spouse to pay to the former, as compensation for the impoverishment attributable to that spouse’s contribution, in property or services, to the enrichment of the patrimony of the other spouse, an allowance payable all at once or by instalments, taking into account, in particular, the advantages of the parental union patrimony. The same rule applies in case of death; in such a case, the advantages of the succession to the surviving spouse are also taken into account.
Where the right to the compensatory allowance is founded on the regular cooperation of the spouse in an enterprise, whether the enterprise deals in property or in services and whether or not it is a commercial enterprise, it may be applied for from the time the cooperation ends, if it ends due to the alienation, dissolution or voluntary or forced liquidation of the enterprise.
