You can make one of the following choices:

• Establish a contract after marriage if you have married without a contract
• Edit existing contract
• Changing the matrimonial regime.

You must speak to a notary.

Persons to be informed of the proposed change of matrimonial regime

You must inform of your plan to change of matrimonial regime the following persons:

• Representative of a minor child under guardianship
• Adult children
• Creditors (via a legal ad log)
• Persons who were parties to the amended eventual marriage contract.

Your adult children may object to changing the matrimonial regime in a three-month period.

Your creditors may object to the change within 3 months after publication.

They must inform the notary who draws up the deed of their objection. He'll let you know.

Court approval

You must ask the court of law of your domicile type-approval of your change of diet, only in case ofopposition one of the following persons:

• Adult child
• Representative of a protected adult child or a minor child under guardianship
• Creditor.

The assistance of a attorney is required.

The lawyer shall submit a request to the court on your behalf to all 2, to which is attached a copy of the notarial deed.

In order to approve the new scheme, the court must assess the following factors:

• Family interest
• Damage to creditors.

He can get input from the children, but he is not obliged to follow it.

Cost of changing contract

The cost depends on the value of the goods furniture or real estate which are mentioned in the contract.

You must pay the following:

• Advertising and procedural costs
• Notary's emoluments calculated on the value of the goods
• Costs of winding up the matrimonial property regime
• Lawyer's fees in case of court approval
• Information costs for creditors and adult children.

You can change your diet, whether you are married without a contract or that you have already signed a marriage contract.

You can adopt one of the matrimonial regimes provided for by law or choose more suitable rules.

Separation of property

Your assets remain separate.

You retain the administration, enjoyment and free disposal of your personal property.

Adjusted Community of Acquisitions

You can adopt the furniture and purchase community or the arrangements for community reduced to acquisitions, but by amending certain clauses.

For example, you may want to include the following:

• Unequal sharing of common goods between you 2
• Possibility of redemption by either of you 2 of all or part of the goods of the other, according to a price or rules fixed in advance.

Universal Community

All your property (furniture or real estate, present and future) are common.

You may or may not include a full community attribution clause for the surviving spouse in the event of death.

Participation in acquisitions

For the duration of the marriage, this regime operates as if you were married under the separation of property regime.

Upon dissolution of the union (divorce or death), the notary calculates the enrichment of each of you 2 during the marriage. It is then shared equally among you 2.

The one who has been the least enriched is entitled to a claim of participation.

Marriage shall cease in the following cases:

• Divorce
• Death.

The property is divided according to the rules of your matrimonial regime (we speak of the liquidation of the matrimonial property regime).

A spouse convicted (as perpetrator or accomplice) of willfully causing or attempting to cause death to his or her spouse, or willfully committing violence that resulted in the death of his or her spouse without intent to cause death, is automatically lost benefits under the matrimonial property regime.

The spouse may also be deprived of benefits under his or her matrimonial property regime if he or she has been convicted ofIn any of the following cases:

• Torture, barbaric acts, willful violence, rape or sexual assault of a spouse
• False testimony against her husband in criminal proceedings
• Willfully failing to prevent a crime or offense against the bodily integrity of a deceased spouse
• Slander against her husband for criminal acts.