1. Spouses may form companies together and participate in companies, provided that only one of them assumes unlimited liability.
1 - É permitida a constituição de sociedades entre cônjuges, bem como a participação destes em sociedades, desde que só um deles assuma responsabilidade ilimitada.
2. Where a company interest is common property of both spouses by virtue of their matrimonial property regime, the spouse who entered into the articles of association or, in the case of a subsequent acquisition, the spouse through whom the interest became part of their common property is regarded as the member in relations with the company.
2 - Quando uma participação social for, por força do regime matrimonial de bens, comum aos dois cônjuges, será considerado como sócio, nas relações com a sociedade, aquele que tenha celebrado o contrato de sociedade ou, no caso de aquisição posterior ao contrato, aquele por quem a participação tenha vindo ao casal.
3. The preceding paragraph does not prevent the exercise of the management powers conferred by civil law on the spouse of a member who is, for any reason, unable to exercise them, nor does it prejudice the surviving spouse's rights in the interest upon the death of the person recorded as the member.
3 - O disposto no número anterior não impede o exercício dos poderes de administração atribuídos pela lei civil ao cônjuge do sócio que se encontrar impossibilitado, por qualquer causa, de a exercer nem prejudica os direitos que, no caso de morte daquele que figurar como sócio, o cônjuge tenha à participação.
Marital common property does not make both spouses members in relations with the company; surviving spouse rights remain.
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Unofficial English translation prepared by BCA Portugal for reference. Only the Portuguese text published in the Diário da República has legal force. Editorial notes are ours and are not part of the statute.