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Title IV — Property Relations Between Husband and Wife

Article 117

EO 209 · Family Code of the PhilippinesKey provision

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Conjugal property includes: (1) fruits of the spouses' separate property; (2) income from their professions, businesses, or industries; (3) property purchased from conjugal funds; (4) property obtained through the industry, work, or wages of either spouse.

Official text — EO 209

The following are conjugal partnership properties:

(1) Those acquired by onerous title during the marriage at the expense of the common fund, whether the acquisition be for the partnership, or for only one of the spouses;

(2) Those obtained from the labor, industry, work or profession of either or both of the spouses;

(3) The fruits, natural, industrial, or civil, due or received during the marriage from the common property, as well as the net fruits from the exclusive property of each spouse;

(4) The share of either spouse in the hidden treasure which the law awards to the finder or owner of the property where the treasure is found;

(5) Those acquired through occupation such as fishing or hunting;

(6) Livestock existing upon the dissolution of the partnership in excess of the number of each kind brought to the marriage by either spouse; and

(7) Those which are acquired by chance, such as winnings from gambling or betting. However, losses therefrom shall be borne exclusively by the loser-spouse. (153a, 154a, 155, 159)

Source: lawphil.net (EO 209 as amended)

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