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Showing 13411350 of 47419 articles for Art. 201 3 bis · CE 5 January 1948 · CE 27 January 1986 · CAA Nantes 16 December 1992 · CE 8 December 1986

French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article 366-5

The refusal decision may be appealed to the Court of Cassation within fifteen days of its pronouncement. The appeal shall be lodged, investigated and judged in accordance with the procedure without co…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Automatic provisional enforcement

Article 514-3

…an appeal, the matter may be referred to the first president in order to halt the provisional enforcement of the decision where there is a serious plea for annulment or reversal and enforcement is li…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Optional provisional enforcement

Article 517-3

Where provisional execution has not been requested, or if, having been requested, the judge has omitted to rule, it may be requested, in the event of an appeal, only from the first president or, as so…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Consent to adoption

Article 348-5

…ithdrawn for two months. The withdrawal must be made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt addressed to the person or service that received the consent to adoption. If, on expiry of the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Establishment of parentage by recognition

Article 316-5

When the acknowledgement is registered, its effects for the application of articles 311-21 or 311-23 date back to the date of referral to the public prosecutor.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Action for subsidies

Article 342-5

The burden of subsidies passes to the debtor's estate according to the rules of article

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Involvement of third parties

Article 373-5

…eft in a position to exercise parental authority, guardianship shall be opened as stated in article 390 below.

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

Article 371-5

The child must not be separated from his or her brothers and sisters, unless this is not possible or if his or her interests require another solution. Where appropriate, the judge will rule on persona…

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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: Civil solidarity pacts

Article 515-3

…declaration thereof before the civil registrar of the commune in which they fix their common residence or, in the event of serious impediment to the fixing thereof, before the civil registrar of the c…

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