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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Total or partial withdrawal of parental authority and withdrawal of the exercise of parental authority

Article 379-1

The judgment may, instead of total withdrawal, simply order a partial withdrawal of parental authority, limited to the attributes it specifies, or a withdrawal of the exercise of parental authority. I…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Educational assistance

Article 375-8

The costs of maintaining and educating a child who has been the subject of an educational assistance measure shall continue to be the responsibility of the child's father and mother and ascendants fro…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Total or partial withdrawal of parental authority and withdrawal of the exercise of parental authority

Article 378-2

The exercise of parental authority and visiting and accommodation rights of a parent prosecuted or convicted, even if not definitively, for a crime committed against the other parent are suspended ips…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Intercountry adoption, conflicts of law and the effect in France of adoptions granted abroad

Article 370-5

An adoption duly granted abroad produces in France the effects of a full adoption if it completely and irrevocably breaks the pre-existing parent-child relationship. Otherwise, it produces the effects…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Parental authority over the person of the child

Article 371-6

…orisation to leave the territory signed by a holder of parental authority.A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the conditions of application of this article..

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Involvement of third parties

Article 373-3

The judge may, by way of exception and if the interests of the child so require, in particular where one of the parents is deprived of the exercise of parental authority, decide to entrust the child t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Involvement of third parties

Article 373-4

Where the child has been entrusted to a third party, parental authority continues to be exercised by the father and mother; however, the person to whom the child has been entrusted performs all the us…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Involvement of third parties

Article 374-1

The court ruling on the establishment of parentage may decide to temporarily entrust the child to a third party who will be responsible for requesting the organisation of guardianship.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Involvement of third parties

Article 374-2

In all the cases provided for in this Title, guardianship may be opened even if there is no property to be administered. In such cases it is organised in accordance with the rules laid down in Title X…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Intercountry adoption, conflicts of law and the effect in France of adoptions granted abroad

Article 370-4

The effects of an adoption granted in France are those of French law.

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