Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

CHAPTER FOURTH
THE EFFECTS OF ABSENCE IN RELATION TO MARRIAGE

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    74.   (Repealed by Act 34 of 1956)

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    75.   If there be community of property between the spouses, the community is provisionally dissolved, from the day of the demand to that effect by the presumptive heirs, after the lapse of the time required for obtaining authority to take possession of the absentee's property, or from the date of the action that the spouse who is present brings against them, for the same purpose; and in these cases, the liquidation and partition of the property of the community may be proceeded with on the demand of such spouse, or of the persons authorised to take provisional possession, or of any other parties interested.

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    76.   In the cases provided for in the preceding article, the covenants and rights of the spouses, dependent on the dissolution of the community, become effective and absolute.

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    77.   If the husband be the absentee, the wife may obtain possession of all the matrimonial profits and advantages resulting from the law or from her marriage contract; but on condition of giving good and sufficient security to account for and restore all that she shall have so received in the event of the absentee's return.

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    78.   If the absent spouse has no relations entitled to his or her succession, the spouse who is present may obtain provisional possession of the property.