{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-30-44","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 30-44","heading":"Form of partition, reclassification, or waiver.","body":"(a)\tCommunity-property spouses domiciled in this State may partition or reclassify property to which this Article otherwise would apply. The partition or reclassification must be in a record signed by both community-property spouses. Unless both community-property spouses agree otherwise, partition of community property is presumed to result in each spouse owning a one-half separate property interest in each item of property addressed in the record.\n(b)\tA community-property spouse domiciled in this State may waive a right granted by this Article only by complying with the law of this State, including this State's choice-of-law rules, applicable to waiver of a spousal property right. (2025-25, s. 51.)","path":["Chapter 30. Surviving Spouses.","Article 5. Uniform Community Property Disposition at Death Act."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_30/GS_30-44.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:59:42Z","sha256":"604c0016317e8f69a5f96c83dac4014b516c82395cc23f33c1c4608c089625a9","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-30-43","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-30-45"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}