Article 494

Art. 494. No co-owner shall be obliged to remain in the co-ownership. Each co-owner may demand at any time the partition of the thing owned in common, insofar as his share is concerned.To remain in a co-ownership would be to subject a person to the desires of the rest.  Comflict in management being bound to arise,thelaw as much as possible discourages co-ownership hence,no co-owner is as rule obliged to remain in the ownership. Moreover, the right to demand partition never prescribes (as long of course as the co-ownership still remains) moreover the law itself says , each co-owner may demand at anytime the partition of the thing owned in common in sofar as his share is concerned,This it has been truly said that generally a co-owner may not acquire exclusive ownership of commo0n