Release number 202433011 of 2024-08-16

• Date: 16 August 2024
• Year: 2024
• Record Number: 202433011
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Subject: Puerto Rico Community Property Question

Good Morning -----,

Below is a response to the questions posed. Please note that the below responses

are based on an English translation of sections of Leyes De Puerto Rico Anotadas

Title 31 Subtitle 7 Part III.

1.When and how does community property terminate in Puerto Rico?

Creation of the Community Regime

In Puerto Rico, the spouses may select an economic regime prior to marriage. 31

L.P.R.A. § 6911. If no regime is selected, the default regime is community property. 31

L.P.R.A. § 6912. Spouses may, before or after the marriage, stipulate, modify, or

replace the economic regime at any time. 31 L.P.R.A. § 6914. This stipulation,

modification, or replacement will not affect third parties if it is not recorded in the

Registry of Matrimonial Capitulations. Id. If a different economic regime is not agreed to,

community property begins the moment of the celebration of marriage without having to

wait for the registration of the marriage in the Demographic Registry. 31 L.P.R.A. §

6952.

Termination of the Community

The community is dissolved through dissolution, declaration of nullity, or through the

marital agreement of a different economic regime as provided by this Code. 31 L.P.R.A.

§ 7011.

Dissolution

A marriage is dissolved by the death or presumed death of a spouse and by

divorce. 31 L.P.R.A. § 6741. The dissolution must be recorded in the Demographic

Registry. 31 L.P.R.A. § 6742.

Dissolution by Death

Dissolution is effective from the very moment of death. 31 L.P.R.A. § 6751. If the

date of death is uncertain or the veracity of the date of death is questioned, the date

recorded in the Demographic Registry is taken as certain. Id.