Umowy między małżonkami dotyczące praw udziałowych w spółkach kapitałowych
Agreements between spouses on share rights in capital companies

Summary/Abstract: The issues of the legal status of married persons and co-members of marital property as participants in commercial companies, especially capital companies, cause a lot of controversy in the practice of legal transactions. Both the Commercial Companies Code and the provisions of the Family and Guardianship Code regulating matrimonial property regimes do not contain any specific provisions for the legal effects of the acquisition (taking up) of participation rights in companies by spouses or by one of them, and especially the belonging of these rights to specific property of the spouses – joint or personal. Therefore, the general provisions of the Code of Commercial Companies and Partnerships apply to these persons. on taking or acquiring the rights of a partner of the company (share rights). The general rule of the statutory matrimonial property regime, expressed in Art. 31 § 1 Family and Guardianship Code. The issue discussed in the article reveals a wider problem arising at the interface between family law and company law, consisting in establishing the legal relationship between a marriage contract and the partnership agreement (or more broadly: the relationship between the provisions of commercial companies law and family law), and consequently the impact and effectiveness of – contracts between persons, one of which has the status of a third party to the company – for the personal composition of the company: a private-law organization whose structure is co-shaped by the provisions of the company’s articles of association.

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