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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-4

…of Article 432. However, the judge may, by specially reasoned decision and on the advice of the doctor mentioned in article 431, decide that there is no need to proceed with his hearing if it is like…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-7

The person authorised to represent the protected person may, unless the judge decides otherwise, carry out the acts mentioned in the first paragraph of Article 427.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-2

…fficiently provided for by applying the rules of the ordinary law of representation, those relating to the respective rights and duties of spouses and the rules of matrimonial property regimes, in par…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-9

…of whom habilitation has been granted performs alone an act the performance of which was entrusted to the habilitated person, the act is void ipso jure without it being necessary to prove any prejudi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-5

The judge shall rule on the choice of the person to be empowered and the extent of the empowerment, ensuring that the proposed arrangement is consistent with the property and, where applicable, person…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-8

…ranted retains the exercise of his rights other than those the exercise of which has been entrusted to the person empowered to represent him pursuant to this section.However, he may not, in the case o…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 2: Proceedings before the guardianship judge

Article 1218

…ed medical certificate provided for in article 431 of the Civil Code; 2° The identity of the person to be protected and a statement of the facts requiring this protection under articles 428 and 494-1…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Provisions relating to measures ordered by the judge

Article 1239

…e guardianship judge and the deliberations of the family council may be appealed. Without prejudice to the provisions of articles 1239-1 to 1239-3, the appeal is open to the persons listed in articles…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 2: Proceedings before the guardianship judge

Article 1217

…of Article 494-3 of the Civil Code, the court shall be seised by application delivered or addressed to the registry of the court of first instance.When the application is made for renewal of family ha…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 2: Proceedings before the guardianship judge

Article 1226

At the hearing, the judge hears the applicant for protection, the adult to be protected, unless the judge applies the provisions of the second paragraph of article 432 or 494-4 of the Civil Code and,…

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