Cap. 16 Art. 1325Exclusion of a spouse from the administration of the community.

(1) The competent court may at the request of a spouse order the exclusion of the other spouse either generally or limitedly for particular purposes or acts, from the administration of the community of acquests, where the latter spouse -

(a) is not competent to administer; or

(b) has mismanaged the community;

and in any such case the administration of the community of acquests shall to the extent to which such spouse has been excluded, vest exclusively in the spouse not so excluded.

(2) The spouse who has been so excluded from administering the acquests may, if the grounds upon which he or she has been excluded no longer subsist, request the court to reinstate such spouse in the administration.

(3) Any order made in terms of this article shall be notified within twenty-four hours by the registrar to the Director of the Public Registry who shall keep the same in a special register and keep a special index thereof. Such orders shall contain all particulars of both spouses as are required for notes of enrolment under the Public Registry Act and shall become operative with regard to third parties upon such registration.

(4) Without prejudice to any order made in terms of sub-article

(1) of this article, in the case of the interdiction or incapacitation of one of the spouses and until such interdiction or incapacitation ceases, such spouse shall be excluded from the administration of the acquests and in any such case the administration of the acquests shall vest solely in the spouse not so excluded.