夫妻共同债务的形成机理及成立要件 -兼论分别财产制下夫妻共同生活所负债务之性质
Formation Mechanism and Establishment Elements of Communal Obligation of Spouse - Concurrent Study on Nature of Obligation from Couple’s Common Life under Martial Separate Property System 부처공동채무적형성궤리급성립요건 -겸론분별재산제하부처공동생활소부채무지성질
The disconnect between obligation law theory and marriage law theory in and outside China which both cannot grasp the formation mechanism and establishment elements of communal obligation of spouse results in not only which there exists there misunderstandings on how to identify communal obligations of spouse in Chinese legislation, trial practice and civil law theory, and the three criterions to identify communal obligations of spouse which contains the common-life theory, the marriage-relationship theory and the couple’s consensus theory fail to grasp the nature of communal obligation, but also cause many civil codes outside China use innaccurate terms to convey the concept of communal obligations and confuse the concept of communal obligation with that of solidary obligation and indivisible obligation. Communal obligation system highlights the legal idea of groupism. Therefore, communal obligation is an obligation to maintain the relationship between common owners. Communal obligation is neither obligation pro parte and divisible obligation, nor solidary obligation and indivisible obligation The establishment elements of communal obligations of spouse contain existence of community property system and obligations from couple’s common life. So the obligation from couple’s common life under martial separate property system belongs to joint obligation. The above-mentioned theories should be reflected in the perfection of law on how to identify the nature of obligation in the name of the couple or the one in China.