Study On The Application Of The Disregard-of-Corporation Personality Of "Couple Companies"

In a narrow sense,a “couple companies” refers to a company established by only couple(husband and wife)as shareholders.Due to the common property of couple,the “couple companies” often has the characteristics of a one-person company and an ordinary limited company at the same time.While the “couple companies” is not a normative legal concept as it have not been clearly regulated in Chinese laws which makes the relevant cases of the "couple companies" have certainly different standard in the theoretical and practical process.If “couple companies” is identified as “one-person company”,will cause a deviation of sharing the burden of proof between stockholder and creditors.As a relatively active part in modern corporate governance,the “couple companies” still needs to adhere to unified legal application rules and judgment standard to effectively balance the limited liability of shareholders and the interests of creditors in the “couple company”.