Finality of advance payments in approved condominium accounts

15 II 36/06Court of First InstanceOct 22, 2007Tenancy law

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Omnilex summary

The Kerpen Local Court addressed whether approval of annual condominium accounts also makes binding the advance-payment amounts recorded in the individual accounts. It held that those amounts do not participate in the finality of the approval resolution. Inferring such an additional resolution would be a fiction, and could expose both the condominium community—particularly where accounts use target advance payments—and individual owners to unacceptable legal disadvantages.

Omnilex headnote

WEG (old version) § 23(4), first sentence; scope of the finality of a resolution approving annual condominium accounts. Approval of annual accounts does not make final the advance-payment amounts shown in individual accounts. Such a consequence cannot be inferred from the approval resolution: it would fictitiously attribute to the owners an intention to resolve on the correctness of advance payments recorded for other owners. Moreover, binding those amounts risks unacceptable legal disadvantages for both the condominium community, especially where accounting is based on target advance payments, and individual owners.

Full text

Amtsgericht Kerpen — 15 II 36/06 — Beschluss

Entscheidungsdatum: 2007-10-22

Aktenzeichen: 15 II 36/06

ECLI: ECLI:DE:AGBM3:2007:1022.15II36.06.00

Dokumenttyp: Beschluss

Spruchkörper: Abteilung 15

Normen: WEG a. F. § 23 Abs. 4 Satz 1

Leitsätze

Die in beschlossenen Einzelabrechnungen ausgewiesene Höhe der Vorauszahlungen eines Wohnungseigentümers nimmt nicht an der Bestandskraft des Genehmigungsbeschlusses teil. Denn es stellt bereits eine Fiktion dar, dass die Wohnungseigentümer mit der Billigung der Jahresabrechnung einen Beschluss über die Richtigkeit der in den Einzelabrechnungen der übrigen Wohnungseigentümer ausgewiesenen Vorauszahlungen fassen wollten. Außerdem besteht die erhebliche Gefahr, dass sowohl die Gemeinschaft (vor allem bei der Abrechnung auf der Basis von sogenannten "Soll-Vorauszahlungen") wie auch dem einzelnen Wohnungseigentümer nicht hinzunehmende Rechtsnachteile entstehen.

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Keywords

condominium ownershipannual accountsadvance paymentsfinality of resolutions

Key legal questions extracted by Omnilex

Whether the amounts of individual condominium owners’ advance payments stated in approved annual accounts become final and binding through approval of those accounts.

The amounts of advance payments stated in individual accounts do not acquire finality through the resolution approving the annual accounts.

It would be a legal fiction to infer that owners intended to resolve on the correctness of advance payments shown in other owners’ accounts; treating them as binding could cause unacceptable legal disadvantages to both the condominium community and individual owners.

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