Legal consequences of divorce of marriage with respect to property

Seznam literatury - 60 - LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF A DIVORCE IN PROPERTY AREA Summary Subject of my thesis is "Legal consequences of a divorce in property area". In the first chapters of this thesis I dealt in particular with the common property of spouses. I briefly described what belongs and what does not belong to the common property. Then I dealt with a divorce and its basic forms which are the so called divorce including identification of cause for breakdown of marriage, complicated divorce and divorce without identifying cause of breakdown of marriage. I focused mainly on the last mentioned form of a divorce which is often also called as a divorce based on agreement. This form of a divorce assumes that spouses are able to communicate with each other and that they are prepared and able to fulfill all the conditions required by law. A divorce based on an agreement of both spouses simplifies the divorce proceedings. The most important legal consequence of a divorce in property area is forfeiture of common property and property settlement. Common property settlement may be reached upon an agreement, by a court decision or upon a legal presumption. Similarly to a divorce the most simple way how to settle extinguished common property is an agreement made and signed by spouses who are able to agree on solution..