| Abstract [eng] |
The purpose of this master thesis is to provide an analysis of Lithuanian legislation and judicial practice of partitioning of common joint property, identify theoretical and practical problems and come to the decisions. Besides the mode of partitioning of common joint property when the property of spouses is divided by a court judgement, the new mode implemented only in new Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania is analysed when the common joint property is divided by spouse’s mutual agreement. The procedure of division of common joint property is disclosed by examination of appropriate principles of the partitioning of common joint property. The following principles of the partitioning of common joint property were determined and examined in this master thesis: principle of composition of property balance, principle of composition of compensation balance, principle of performance of common obligations, principle of determination of part from spouses property, principle of equal parts and exceptions of its application, and principle of partitioning of property in kind. The judicial practice is a main source of subject disclosing content of identified principles. The basic attention is paid to the problematic aspects arising in judicial practice on application the norms of partitioning of common joint property. The main practical questions are determination of common and the respective individual property of spouses, performance of obligations to the common creditors, the exceptions of application of equal parts principle, application of partitioning of property in kind. |
