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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 40

Civil status records are drawn up on paper and are entered, in each municipality, in one or more registers kept in duplicate. When they have implemented automated processing of civil status data, the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 48

…he civil status data is kept by automated processing satisfying the conditions laid down in Article 40 and implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which may issue copies and extracts.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The tutor

Article 406

The guardian is appointed for the duration of the guardianship.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The tutor

Article 408

The tutor takes care of the minor's person and represents him in all acts of civil life, except in cases in which the law or custom authorises the minor to act himself. He represents the minor in cour…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to protected adults

Article 422

Where the fault causing the damage was committed in the organisation and operation of the protection measure by the guardianship judge, the director of the judicial registry services of the judicial c…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 427

The person responsible for the protective measure may not close any accounts or passbooks opened in the name of the protected person before the measure was pronounced. Nor may he or she open another a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal protection

Article 433

The judge may place under court protection a person who, for one of the reasons set out in Article 425, needs temporary legal protection or representation to perform certain specified acts. This measu…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The tutor

Article 403

The individual right to choose a guardian, whether related to the minor or not, belongs only to the last surviving father and mother if he or she has retained, on the day of death, the exercise of par…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal protection

Article 434

Safeguard of justice may also result from a declaration made to the public prosecutor under the conditions set out in the article L. 3211-6 du code de la santé publique.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal protection

Article 436

The mandate by which the protected person has entrusted another person with the administration of his property continues to have effect during the safeguard of justice unless it is revoked or suspende…

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