The Evaluation of the Effects of Participation of the Spouses to the Expenditures of Marriage Union and Financial Contributions to Each Other During Marriage to the Regime of Participation in Acquired Property

Abstract

Through marriage, spouses start sharing a common life. The fact that spouses begin to live together by combining their lives causes monetary relations between them to emerge as well as moral relations (Ãœlker,1973; Acabey, 1998). The legislator has regulated the monetary relations between the spouses under various provisions. In our study, we will evaluate the spouses' participation in the expenditure of the marriage union (TCL Art. 186/III) and the financial contributions of the spouses to each other in terms of the participation to acquired property regime (TCL Art. 218 - Art. 240). In the first part of our study, we will give a brief description of the participation to acquired property regime. In the second part we will refer to the obligation of the spouses to participate to the expenditures of the marriage union and the financial contributions of the spouses to each other. In the last part, we will evaluate the spouses' participation in the expenditure of the marriage union and the financial contributions to each other in light of the participation to the acquired property regime.