Art. 4601 Methods of partition

When people who jointly own property want to split it up, they have two ways to do it. They can work it out among themselves without going to court, or they can ask a court to divide the property for them.

If everyone who owns a share of the property agrees on how to divide it, they can handle the partition on their own, without a judge getting involved. This is usually faster and cheaper.

If the owners cannot agree on how to split things up, any one of them can ask a court to step in and divide the property. The court will then decide how to fairly split the property among the owners, either by physically dividing it or by selling it and splitting the money.