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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter VI: Referral to the Cour de cassation for an opinion.

Article 1031-2

The decision requesting the opinion is sent, together with the submissions and any written observations, by the court registry to the registry of the Cour de cassation. It is notified, as well as the…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Procedures relating to first names

Article 1055-2

Where the public prosecutor opposes the change of first name pursuant to the provisions of the last paragraph of article 60 of the Civil Code, the claim is brought against him before the family affair…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions

Article 1072-2

…of the minor(s), a copy of the family court judge's decision is sent to the juvenile court judge together with any documents that the latter considers useful.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IIa: The operation, liquidation and division of matrimonial property regimes and joint ownership between persons bound by a civil solidarity pact or between cohabitees

Article 1136-2

The provisions of Section VI of Chapter II of Title III of Book III are, subject to the provisions of Article 267 of the Civil Code, applicable to the division of the property interests of spouses, pe…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III : Transcription and entry of decisions in civil status registers

Article 1056-2

…ral civil status department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is established. He alone is also competent to rule on the transcription of the foreign marriage record in French civil status registers a…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: Delegation, total and partial withdrawal of parental authority, judicial declaration of parental abandonment

Article 1208-2

The case is heard and judged in chambers after the opinion of the public prosecutor. The procedure is oral.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: Delegation, total and partial withdrawal of parental authority, judicial declaration of parental abandonment

Article 1209-2

The appeal in cassation is open to the public prosecutor.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Educational assistance

Article 1199-2

The designation of a meeting place pursuant to the third sentence of the fourth paragraph of

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IV: Provisions relating to the ad hoc administrator

Article 1210-2

The appointment of an ad hoc administrator may be contested by way of appeal by the minor's legal representatives within a period of fifteen days. This appeal does not have suspensive effect. The appe…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 4: The appeal.

Article 1239-2

An appeal against a judgment refusing to grant a protective measure in respect of a person of full age is only open to the applicant.

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