Mine, Not Ours: The Declaration of Separate Property in Dominican Marriages Dominican law’s default marital regime, the community of property, comes with a powerful presumption: what is acquired during the marriage belongs to both spouses. It is a fair default and a dangerous one, because not everything acquired during a marriage is actually community property. […]
The Long Road: The Ordinary Real Estate Foreclosure in the Dominican Republic Every legal system has a default, and in Dominican real estate execution the default is the ordinary foreclosure of the Civil Procedure Code: the full-dress procedure, inherited from the French tradition, through which a creditor armed with an enforceable title seizes, advertises and […]
Amending the Building’s Constitution: The Modification of the Condominium Regime A condominium’s founding documents are drafted at a moment, and buildings outlive moments. The developer’s master plan adds a phase the original declaration never described; owners want to convert a commercial ground floor to residential use, or the reverse; common areas are reconfigured, units merged […]
The House on Someone Else’s Land: Registering Improvements in Favor of a Third Party Walk through any Dominican town and you will see the legal situation this procedure exists for: the house a son built on his mother’s parcel, the second floor a sister added over the family home, the business a nephew raised on […]
Ownership on Layaway: The Conditional Sale of Dominican Real Estate Dominican law offers installment sellers two philosophies of protection. The firstcovers the transfer ownership now and secure the unpaid price with a privilege or mortgage, the buyer owns, the seller holds security. The second inverts the architecture entirely: the conditional sale (venta condicional de inmuebles), […]
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