Text of the provision

Art. 132. 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.

(187a)

Family Code of the Philippines, Executive Order No. 209, approved July 6, 1987. The Code took effect on August 3, 1988 (Republic v. Orbecido III, G.R. No. 154380, October 5, 2005). Reproduced in full.

What this article means

The Code does not spell out every procedural detail of liquidation. This article fills the gaps by borrowing the Rules of Court on settling the estates of deceased persons: those rules govern the appraisal and sale of conjugal property, and anything else this Chapter does not expressly cover.

In practice it means a conjugal liquidation is run with the same procedural machinery as an estate settlement — a sensible fit, since a great many liquidations happen precisely because a spouse has died.

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Cases interpreting this article

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