French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions
Article 20-1
A child's parentage only has an effect on the child's nationality if it is established during the child's minority.
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A child's parentage only has an effect on the child's nationality if it is established during the child's minority.
…ns relating to nationality provided for in the previous article are automatically entered on copies and extracts with an indication of parentage of birth certificates or certificates drawn up in lieu…
The acquisition and loss of French nationality are governed by the law in force at the time of the act or fact to which the law attaches these effects. The provisions of the preceding paragraph regula…
An unemancipated minor is domiciled with his father and mother. If the father and mother have separate domiciles, he is domiciled with the parent with whom he resides.
…tus records is also ensured by the family record book, the content of which, the rules for updating and the conditions for issuing and securing it are laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. Its mo…
The qualities and conditions required to be able to contract marriage are governed, for each of the spouses, by their personal law. Whatever the applicable personal law, marriage requires the consent…
…oned, pending the results of the investigation he is conducting. He will inform the civil registrar and the interested parties of his reasoned decision.The duration of the stay decided by the public p…
…hat there are facts constituting grounds for divorce, without having to set out the parties' wrongs and grievances.
The spouses may also, at any stage of the proceedings, when divorce has been requested on the grounds of definitive alteration of the marital bond or on the grounds of fault, ask the judge to record t…
A spouse may not introduce into the proceedings evidence obtained by violence or fraud.
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