French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Actions to establish parentage
Article 327
Paternity outside marriage may be judicially declared. The action to establish paternity is reserved for the child.
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Paternity outside marriage may be judicially declared. The action to establish paternity is reserved for the child.
Subject to the provisions of this section, the consequences of legal separation shall be governed by the same rules as the consequences of divorce set out in Chapter III above.
Plenary adoption confers on the child a filiation that replaces his or her original filiation: the adopted child ceases to belong to his or her original family, subject to the prohibitions on marriage…
The adoption is irrevocable.
Possession of status may be established, at the request of any person having an interest therein, within ten years of its cessation or the death of the alleged parent.
Where the presumption of paternity has been set aside pursuant to Article 313, each of the spouses may request, during the child's minority, that its effects be re-established by proving that the husb…
With the exception of its last paragraph, Article 357 is applicable to a child who has been the subject of an adoption duly pronounced abroad having in France the effects of a full adoption.The adopte…
Each of the separated spouses retains the use of the other's name. However, the legal separation agreement by private deed countersigned by lawyers filed with a notary, the legal separation judgment o…
Plenary adoption confers on the child the name of the adopter.In the event of the adoption of a child by a couple, or the adopters choose, by joint declaration, the surname devolving on the child: eit…
The court clerk shall draw up minutes of the proceedings for the formation of the judging panel.
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