While co-owners have the opportunity to purchase each other's shares, navigating this path can introduce potential disputes. A marital property partition is an agreement between spouses that allows them to convert community property into the separate property of one spouse.Filing a complaint for partition of real property is the best way to show your uncooperative coowner that you are serious about selling the property. A partition and exchange agreement is a legal contract between divorcing couples that outlines the terms of their property division and distribution. The document is a partition agreement between two parties to terminate their community ownership of a parcel of land and divide it between them. Literally, "two chambers;" in a legislative body, having two houses (as in the House of Representatives and the Senate comprising the U.S. Congress).