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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Legal enjoyment

Article 386-3

The charges for this enjoyment are:1° Those to which usufructuaries are liable;2° The child's food, maintenance and education, according to his wealth;3° The debts encumbering the estate received by t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Judicial declaration of parental abandonment

Article 381-2

The court shall declare a child taken into care by a person, establishment or departmental child welfare service to be abandoned if the child is in the situation referred to in Article 381-1 during th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Legal administration

Article 382-1

Where legal administration is exercised jointly by the two parents, each of them is deemed, with regard to third parties, to have received from the other the power to carry out alone acts of administr…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Intervention by the guardianship judge

Article 387-4

…n inventory of the minor's assets to be sent to him or her, as well as an updated inventory each year.A copy of the inventory is given to the minor who has reached the age of sixteen.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Judicial declaration of parental abandonment

Article 381-1

…g of the application, without the parents having been prevented from doing so by any cause whatsoever.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Legal enjoyment

Article 386-1

Legal enjoyment is attached to legal administration: it belongs either to the parents jointly or to whichever of them is responsible for the administration.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Intervention by the guardianship judge

Article 387-6

The legal administrator is required to comply with the summonses of the guardianship judge and the public prosecutor and to provide them with any information they require.The judge may issue injunctio…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-38

The judicial police officer or the judicial police agent acting under his responsibility shall draw up a report of each of the operations to set up the technical means mentioned in Article 230-32 and…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 380-3

The assize court ruling on appeal on the public prosecution may not, on the sole appeal of the accused, aggravate the latter's fate.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 380-2

The right to appeal belongs: 1° To the accused; 2° To the public prosecutor; 3° To the person civilly liable, as regards his civil interests; 4° To the civil party, as regards his civil interests; 5°…

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