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Co-ownership with less than five fractions. In this type of co-ownership, when a co-owner has a number of votes greater than one-half of all the votes available to the co-owners, the number of votes to which he is entitled at a meeting is reduced to the total number of votes to which the other co-owners present or represented at the meeting are entitled. No other specific provisions govern small co-ownership. Thus, we can observe risks of deadlock in decision-making, especially in co-ownership composed of two fractions.
06/01/2024
La capsule vidéo de Condolegal, présentée par l’avocat émérite Yves Joli-Coeur, offre un aperçu sur les petites copropriétés. Cette vidéo est une ressource précieuse pour ceux qui cherchent à comprendre les nuances entre une petite copropriété et une copropriété “classique”. Me Yves Joli-Cœur, avec son expertise juridique, explique clairement ce qu’est…...
03/07/2019
The presence of a board of directors is mandatory in a co-ownership. It is the executive body of the syndicate and its legal representative. As for its members, they act as mandataries of the syndicate. Because of the phenomenon of co-ownership in difficulty or dysfunctional, the legislator, through Bill 16,…...
09/08/2022
We are only two co-owners and directors. When I arrived a year ago, there was no management of the co-ownership, no assembly. I have held two meetings for a year and informed the other co-owner of the legislation in terms of co-ownership and the existence of the declaration of co-ownership,…...
07/03/2022
Constituée de six logements ou moins, une petite copropriété est un bâtiment de taille modeste ne nécessitant généralement ni ascenseur ni de concierge, allégeant ainsi les charges de copropriétés. Le Code civil du Québec a introduit un régime juridique spécifique pour certaines copropriétés à savoir celles comportant moins de cinq fractions. Par…...
09/08/2022
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25/07/2016
The right to vote is recognized as an essential element of any modern society, and as such, co-owners cannot be deprived of it except as provided in the law. In addition, each co-owner has, in principle, at the meeting a number of votes proportional to the relative value of his…...
02/03/2010
Our co-ownership consists of a small building. We only have 3 units. We don't really need to meet this year, because nothing interesting is to report and anyway we talk regularly in front of the building. Everything is going well. My neighbour tells me that it would be preferable to…...
01/03/2010
Question: What happens if the owners do not find among them the three directors required by the declaration of co-ownership? Is it possible to outsource this mandate, that is to say to a consulting firm?...
01/03/2007
The provisions related to the appointment and replacement of the directors are provided for in the By-laws of the immovable (2nd part of the declaration of co-ownership). In their absence, they are also found in the Civil Code of Quebec (C.C.Q.). The law thus leaves it to the co-owners to…...