The Register of Marriage Settlements contains agreements
between spouses regulating their assets/property in a different
way than what automatically follows from marriage legislation.
If, for example, spouses wish to register separation of property,
they must establish a marriage settlement. If the marriage
settlement is to confer protection against any creditors,
it must be registered in the Register of Marriage Settlements.
The same provisions apply to registered partners.
The Register of Marriage Settlements contains registered
marriage settlements from 1928 up to the present. A total
of 120,000 marriage settlements registered prior to 1981 have
been registered in a manual index file, while registrations
after 1981 can be searched in a database.
The Register of Marriage Settlements contains important information
about the assets/property of spouses, and the principle that
such information should be public applies to this register
as well. To obtain information about a marriage settlement
it is sufficient to submit the name, date of birth and address
of one of the spouses. For electronic searches in the database
of marriage settlements it is helpful to also provide the
national identity number of one of the spouses.
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