Article 316-5
When the acknowledgement is registered, its effects for the application of articles 311-21 or 311-23 date back to the date of referral to the public prosecutor.
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When the acknowledgement is registered, its effects for the application of articles 311-21 or 311-23 date back to the date of referral to the public prosecutor.
Possession of status is established by a sufficient collection of facts that reveal the filiation and kinship link between a person and the family to which he or she is said to belong. The main of the…
Filiation is legally established, under the conditions laid down in Chapter II of this Title, by operation of law, by voluntary recognition or by possession of status established by an act of notoriet…
…latest within three years of the child's birth. Where this article, the second paragraph of article 311-23, article 342-12 or article 357 in respect of a joint child, the name previously devolved or c…
…pediment, the parent may be represented by a special and authenticated proxy.However, where article 311-21, the second paragraph of this article, article 342-12 or article 357 has already been applied…
Parentage is proved by the child's birth certificate, by the acknowledgement certificate or by the notoriety certificate establishing possession of status. If an action is brought pursuant to Chapter…
The court shall rule, within a period of ten days from the date on which the matter is referred to it, on the application for the opposition to be dismissed made by the author of the acknowledgement,…
A voluntary acknowledgement of paternity or maternity is valid if it was made in accordance with either the personal law of its author or the personal law of the child.
Any act of opposition by the public prosecutor shall mention the forenames and surname of the author of the acknowledgement as well as the forenames and surname, date and place of birth of the child c…
However, if the child and his father and mother or one of them have their habitual residence in France, whether common or separate, possession of status produces all the consequences that flow from it…
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