If you have not had any conditions drawn up at the notary before your marriage or registered partnership, you get married or enter into a registered partnership in limited community of property. All your personal possessions and debts which you have before your marriage or registered partnership remain in that case yours alone. Any assets and debts you acquire after the marriage or registered partnership are jointly owned.
If you wish to marry or enter into a registered partnership in a different way you will have to draw up a prenuptial or partnership agreement. The possibilities are numerous. You can, within the rules of the law, arrange it as you wish.
In the prenuptial or partnership agreement, the distribution of your assets is arranged between the two of you. There are many possible variations. The extremes are 'cold exclusion' and 'total community of property', in the first case nothing is automatically communal, in the second case everything is automatically communal, including all possessions from the past. The latter can be useful when one of you owns a house. Of course, there are all kinds of intermediate variants possible.
In a prenuptial agreement you can also deviate from the legal regulations concerning the right to a partner's pension.
It is possible to change the prenuptial or partnership agreement during the marriage or registered partnership. For this, you need a notarial deed.
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