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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Conflict of laws relating to parentage

Article 311-14

Parentage is governed by the personal law of the mother on the day of the child's birth; if the mother is unknown, by the personal law of the child.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Action for subsidies

Article 342-6

Articles 327 paragraph 2, and 328 above are applicable to the action for subsidies.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Consent to adoption

Article 348-7

Where the parents refuse to consent to the adoption of their child in respect of whom they have lost interest to the risk of compromising the child's health or morals, the court may order the adoption…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Minority rights

Article 388-2

…e of his legal representatives, the guardianship judge under the conditions provided for in Article 383 or, failing this, the judge hearing the proceedings shall appoint an ad hoc administrator to rep…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article 370-1

The adoption of the child of the other member of the couple is not subject to an age condition for the adopter.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Intercountry adoption, conflicts of law and the effect in France of adoptions granted abroad

Article 370-2

An adoption is international 1° Where a minor habitually resident in a foreign State has been, is being or is to be moved, in connection with his or her adoption, to France, where the adopter or adopt…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General principles.

Article 373-1

If one of the father and mother dies or is deprived of the exercise of parental authority, the other shall exercise this authority alone, unless he or she has been deprived of it by a previous court d…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Involvement of third parties

Article 373-5

…eft in a position to exercise parental authority, guardianship shall be opened as stated in article 390 below.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Total or partial withdrawal of parental authority and withdrawal of the exercise of parental authority

Article 378-1

…ntarily refrained from exercising the rights and fulfilling the duties conferred on them by article 375-7.The action for total withdrawal of parental authority is brought before the judicial court, ei…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Parental authority over the person of the child

Article 371-4

Children have the right to maintain personal relations with their ascendants. Only the interests of the child may prevent the exercise of this right.If it is in the child's interests, the family court…

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