Article 23. Common joint property of spouses

The property acquired by the spouses during a marriage, as well as that acquired before registration of the marriage using the common means of the future spouses shall be their common joint property unless otherwise envisaged by law or by a marriage contract.

The property acquired by the spouses during the marriage (common property of the spouses) shall include income of each of the spouses from work, entrepreneurial activity, and results of intellectual activity, pensions and allowances received by them, as well as other monetary payments with no special targeted purpose (amounts of material support, amounts paid in compensation for disability caused by injury or other health damage, etc.). Movables and immovables, securities, stakes and contributions acquired at the expense of the common income of the spouses, including shares in the capital made in credit institutions or in other commercial organizations, as well as any other property acquired by spouses during the marriage - regardless of the fact in whose name it was acquired or in whose name or by whom of spouses the money was paid in - shall also be considered the common property of the spouses.

Spouses shall enjoy equal rights to the common property also in the case when one of them has been engaged in housekeeping, child care, or did not have an independent earnings and other income for other good reasons.

The rights of spouses to own, use, and dispose of property, which is joint property of members of farming and dehkan enterprises shall be determined by the laws on farming and dehkan enterprises. The division of property of a farming and dehkan enterprise shall be carried out in line with the rules provided for in Articles 223 and 225 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan.