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Showing 21–30 of 3179 articles for “Art. 19 avr. 2023”
The judge may summon minors and protected adults subject to the rules relating to the capacity of persons and the taking of evidence, as well as their legal representatives or those assisting them.He…
A child born in France of unknown parents is French. However, he or she will be deemed never to have been French if, during his or her minority, his or her filiation is established with regard to a fo…
No one may claim the title of spouse and the civil effects of marriage unless he or she represents an act of celebration recorded in the civil status register; except in the cases provided for in Arti…
If the marriage has not been preceded by the required publication or if the dispensations permitted by law have not been obtained, or if the prescribed intervals between the publications and the celeb…
The public prosecutor, in all cases to which article 184, may and must request the nullity of the marriage, during the lifetime of both spouses, and have them ordered to separate.
Any marriage which has not been contracted publicly, and which has not been celebrated before the competent public officer, may be contested, within a period of thirty years from its celebration, by t…
The penalties imposed by the preceding article will be incurred by the persons designated therein, for any contravention of the rules prescribed by article 165, even if such contraventions are not dee…
If, however, in the case of articles 194 and 195, there are children from two individuals who have lived publicly as husband and wife, and who are both deceased, the legitimacy of the children cannot…
Possession of status may not exempt the alleged spouses who invoke it, respectively, from representing the act of celebration of the marriage before the civil registrar.
Where proof of a legal celebration of the marriage is acquired by the result of criminal proceedings, the entry of the judgment in the civil status registers ensures that the marriage has full civil e…
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