French Civil CodeIn force
Preliminary Title: Publication, effects and application of laws in general
Article 2
The law provides only for the future; it has no retroactive effect.
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The law provides only for the future; it has no retroactive effect.
Simple adoption has no automatic effect on the nationality of the adopted person.
…ationality unless he/she expressly declares this, under the conditions provided for in the articles 26 et seq of this title.
The spouses contract together, by the mere fact of marriage, the obligation to feed, maintain and bring up their children.
Son-in-law and daughter-in-law also owe maintenance to their father-in-law and mother-in-law in the same circumstances, but this obligation ceases when the spouse who produced the affinity and the chi…
…the day on which he or she became aware of the deed, but may never be brought more than one year after the matrimonial property regime was dissolved.
A marriage which has been declared null shall, nevertheless, produce its effects in respect of the spouses, where it was contracted in good faith. If good faith exists only on the part of one of the s…
The spouses owe each other mutual respect, fidelity, help, assistance.
Alimony shall be granted only in proportion to the need of the person claiming it, and the wealth of the person owing it. The judge may, even of his own motion, and according to the circumstances of t…
If the matrimonial agreements do not regulate the contribution of the spouses to the expenses of the marriage, they contribute in proportion to their respective faculties. If one of the spouses does n…
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