Cap. 16 Art. 1334Definition of paraphernal property.

(1) Where the community of acquests or the community of residue under separate administration operates between the spouses, all property which is not included in paragraphs (a) to (f) of article 1320 or is not dotal is paraphernal. Where the property of the spouses is held under the system of separate property all property which is not dotal is paraphernal.

(2) The management of paraphernal property shall appertain exclusively to the spouse to whom such property belongs.

(3) For the support of the family, the spouses shall first use income deriving from common property before income belonging to one of them exclusively, and they shall first use capital which is their common property or belongs to the community of acquests before the capital belonging exclusively to one of the spouses.