谈保证期间与保证时效

保证期间是保证人承担保证责任的期间。保证期间既非诉讼时效，也非排斥期间，它实属免除期间，即此期间经过后，保证人便可免去承担保证责任。一般保证的保证期间始于主债务履行期届满后，债权人就主债务履行向人民法院提起诉讼或向仲裁机构申请仲裁并经人民法院强制执行仍不能履行债务之时，而连带保证的保证期间应始于主债务履行期届满之日。

The Guaranty Period and the Guaranty Limitation

The guaranty period is the time in which the guarantor must bear the guaranty liability. But the guaranty period is neither the limitation of action nor the scheduled period, it is the exemption period, after the period, the guarantor can absolves the quaranty liability. About general quaranty, the quaranty period begins in the time after the discharge period have been fall, and in which, the creditor has bought a suit against the debtor of arbitrated about redemption of debt. and the debtor can not discharge the debt when people's court enforce. On joint and several quaranty, the guaranty period begins in the day when the debt discharge period has been fall.