La. Civ. Code art. 2368

This is the official text of La. Civ. Code art. 2368, part of Louisiana’s Civil Code — louisiana's civil law tradition codifies persons, property, obligations, and family relations here rather than in a separate statutory code.

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Increase of the value of separate property.

Official statutory text

If the separate property of a spouse has increased in value as a result of the uncompensated common labor or industry of the spouses, the other spouse is entitled to be reimbursed from the spouse whose property has increased in value one-half of the increase attributed to the common labor.

Acts 1979, No. 709, §1.

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