Can you sit in an undivided estate with separate property?

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Being undivided means postponing the distribution of the inheritance after the first to die, and that the surviving spouse continues to manage the assets. Separate property refers to the part of the deceased's wealth that is excluded from the division, which must be stipulated in a prenuptial agreement. The prenuptial agreement can also stipulate that the deceased can be left undivided with separate property.

The question is whether it is possible to have separate property in an undivided estate. To find out, you need to check that this was something the spouses actually agreed to when they entered into the prenuptial agreement on separate property.