Short answer. Article 132 of the Family Code sends you to the Rules of Court. Where the Family Code's chapter on liquidating the conjugal partnership does not spell out how property is to be appraised or sold, the Rules of Court on administering the estates of deceased persons apply to fill that gap.
What the law says
The Rules of Court on the administration of estates of deceased persons shall be observed in the appraisal and sale of property of the conjugal partnership, and other matters which are not expressly determined in this Chapter.
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The rule Article 132 states
Article 132 provides: the Rules of Court on the administration of estates of deceased persons shall be observed in the appraisal and sale of property of the conjugal partnership, and other matters which are not expressly determined in this Chapter. It is a gap-filling provision. The Family Code chapter on liquidating the conjugal partnership sets out its own procedure, but that chapter does not attempt to cover every detail of how property is to be valued or disposed of — for those specifics, the article points to a separate body of procedural rules built for a related situation.
Why estate-administration rules were chosen
Liquidating a conjugal partnership and settling a deceased person's estate both involve identifying property, determining its value, and eventually distributing or disposing of it among people with a stake in the outcome. Because these tasks are structurally similar, the Family Code borrows the Rules of Court provisions already written for estate administration rather than duplicating a separate appraisal-and-sale procedure inside the Family Code itself. That borrowing applies specifically to appraisal and sale, and more broadly to other matters which are not expressly determined in the liquidation chapter.
What this means in a liquidation
If a question comes up during liquidation — how a particular asset should be valued, or what process governs selling conjugal property to satisfy obligations or divide the proceeds — and the Family Code's own chapter does not answer it, Article 132 is the reason the Rules of Court become relevant at all. This article does not itself supply the appraisal method or the sale procedure; it identifies where that procedure comes from. The actual mechanics still have to be found in the Rules of Court provisions the article incorporates.
The limits of what Article 132 settles
This article addresses gaps in the liquidation chapter specifically — it does not extend to every question that might arise about conjugal property generally, such as whether a particular asset counts as conjugal in the first place or whose consent a sale required while the marriage was intact. Those are governed by other provisions entirely. Article 132's role is limited to what happens once liquidation is already underway and the chapter governing that process falls silent on a procedural point.