Cap. 16 Art. 497Power of court to orderdissolutionof community notwithstanding prohibition of testator, etc.

(1) Notwithstanding the prohibition or agreement referred to in the last preceding article, it shall be lawful for the court, if serious and urgent reasons so require, to order the dissolution of the community of property, and any waiver of the right to demand a partition in similar cases is null.

(2) Where any of the co-owners has, through his fault, given cause to the existence of the reasons referred to in sub-article (1), the court may, according to circumstances, in ordering the dissolution, condemn such co-owner in all damages.