{"id":1566,"date":"2019-02-11T17:29:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vbbabogados.com\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2021-03-17T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T08:43:22","slug":"the-purchase-and-sale-of-property-in-spain-subject-to-a-foreign-matrimonial-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vbbabogados.com\/en\/blog\/the-purchase-and-sale-of-property-in-spain-subject-to-a-foreign-matrimonial-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"The purchase and sale of property in Spain subject to a foreign matrimonial regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_81 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Informaci\u00f3n detallada<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e77f3c86b15\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/vbbabogados.com\/en\/blog\/the-purchase-and-sale-of-property-in-spain-subject-to-a-foreign-matrimonial-regime\/#Purchase_of_properties_in_Spain_by_married_persons_under_marriage_economic_regime_subject_to_foreign_law\" >Purchase of properties in Spain by married persons under marriage economic regime subject to foreign law<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/vbbabogados.com\/en\/blog\/the-purchase-and-sale-of-property-in-spain-subject-to-a-foreign-matrimonial-regime\/#New_regulation_of_the_European_Union\" >New regulation of the European Union<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/vbbabogados.com\/en\/blog\/the-purchase-and-sale-of-property-in-spain-subject-to-a-foreign-matrimonial-regime\/#The_sale_of_properties_in_Spain_subject_to_foreign_marriage_regime\" >The sale of properties in Spain subject to foreign marriage regime<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Purchase_of_properties_in_Spain_by_married_persons_under_marriage_economic_regime_subject_to_foreign_law\"><\/span>Purchase of properties in Spain by married persons under marriage economic regime subject to foreign law<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When buying a property for married people whose marriage is subject to a foreign economic regime, <strong>it is important to analyse, and record the specific regime that applies to such acquisition<\/strong>, to avoid future problems in the validity of the purchase or its subsequent sale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the Notary does not know the content of the foreign law, must state in the deed what is the norm applicable to the patrimonial relations between spouses.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, when foreign acquiring spouses have the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">same nationality<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">their matrimonial economic regime, in the absence of a pact, will be the legal regime corresponding to their common national law.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>It is convenient, not only to record the applicable law, but also the content of it<\/strong>, if we are faced with a regime of separation of property, community of property, \u00a0participation in profits, and of course if the spouses have signed agreements or pacts that modify the legal regime of supplementary application.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the case of spouses of<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">different nationalities,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the connection criteria that determine the conflict rules of Spanish private international law must be applied, in order to know the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legislation applicable to the purchase.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The general rule is that the law of the place of common habitual residence subsequent to the celebration of marriage will be applied.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the case of married foreign spouses in a system of community of property or equivalent regime,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when the property is acquired privately (with private means) by one of the spouses, the non-purchasing spouse can make an statement on this sense, agreeing with the private purchase by the other party. But, careful, when the sell of the property it shall be proven that the law or foreign law of application allows the acquisition of property privatively by one of the spouses.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"New_regulation_of_the_European_Union\"><\/span>New regulation of the European Union<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For those marriages celebrated from 29 January 2019, Regulation (EU) 2016\/1103, of June 24, 2016, will be applied to marriages celebrated from 29<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> January 2019, to determine <strong>the applicable law in matters of economic-matrimonial regimes<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the absence of the spouses&#8217; choice<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(through covenants or matrimonial chapters), the law applicable to the marriage shall be: (1) that of the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">common habitual residence of the spouses immediately after the marriage;<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2) in its absence, that of the common nationality at the time of the celebration of the marriage;<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(3) in the absence of the two previous ones, the applicable law shall be that of the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State with which the spouses have a closer relationship,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">taking into account all the concurrent circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_sale_of_properties_in_Spain_subject_to_foreign_marriage_regime\"><\/span>The sale of properties in Spain subject to foreign marriage regime<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If at the time of registering the purchase<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the applicable law was NOT stated<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it will be necessary to prove the foreign legislation applicable to the case and that this law allows the sale to be made by one of the spouses, for example, or if both spouses will have to appear before the Notary to consent to the sale.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">applicable economic regime was indicated<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the purchase, the sale may be carried out with the consent of both spouses or the consent of only one of them, when the foreign legislation allows a property acquired during the marriage to be sold only by one of the spouses, which must be accredited.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Especially when it comes to selling the family home.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To avoid future problems in the case of purchases and sales of real estate in Spain by foreign marriages <strong>it is advisable to carefully analyse the law applicable to that sale<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchase of properties in Spain by married persons under marriage economic regime subject to foreign law When buying a property for married people whose marriage is subject to a foreign economic regime, it is important to analyse, and record the specific regime that applies to such acquisition, to avoid future problems in the validity of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The purchase and sale of property in Spain subject to a foreign matrimonial regime - Boltas Boy&eacute; 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