French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Actions to establish parentage
Article 326
During childbirth, the mother may request that her admission and identity be kept secret.
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During childbirth, the mother may request that her admission and identity be kept secret.
In the absence of a title and possession of status, the maternity search is admitted.The action is reserved for the child who is required to prove that he is the one from whom the alleged mother gave…
Except where they are confined by law to a different time limit, actions relating to filiation are prescribed by ten years from the day on which the person was deprived of the status he or she claims,…
The parent, even if a minor, in respect of whom filiation is established has, during the minority of the child, sole standing to bring an action to establish maternity or paternity. If no parent-child…
Paternity outside marriage may be judicially declared. The action to establish paternity is reserved for the child.
As long as it has not been contested in court, legally established filiation prevents the establishment of another filiation that would contradict it.
…have the right to lodge third-party proceedings against them within the period mentioned in article 321 if the action was open to them. Judges may, of their own motion, order that all interested parti…
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…
Actions relating to parentage cannot be waived.
The action may be brought by the heirs of a deceased person before the expiry of the period that was allowed to the deceased person to bring the action. The heirs may also continue the action already…
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