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Showing 11–20 of 52215 articles for “Art. 494-1”
The application must be submitted in duplicate. It must state the reasons on which it is based. It must include a precise indication of the documents relied on. If it is presented in the course of pro…
For the application of the last paragraph of Article 486, the mandatary keeps the inventory of assets and its updates, the last five management accounts, the supporting documents as well as those nece…
The opposition shall be null and void if the opposing party does not appear on the date set for him either by the notification made to him orally and recorded in the minutes at the time the opposition…
The person authorised to represent the protected person may, unless the judge decides otherwise, carry out the acts mentioned in the first paragraph of Article 427.
Family habilitation may only be ordered by the judge in cases of necessity and when the interests of the person cannot be sufficiently provided for by applying the rules of the ordinary law of represe…
If the person in respect of whom habilitation has been granted performs alone an act the performance of which was entrusted to the habilitated person, the act is void ipso jure without it being necess…
The judge shall rule on the choice of the person to be empowered and the extent of the empowerment, ensuring that the proposed arrangement is consistent with the property and, where applicable, person…
The person in respect of whom habilitation has been granted retains the exercise of his rights other than those the exercise of which has been entrusted to the person empowered to represent him pursua…
…erson to be protected and a statement of the facts requiring this protection under articles 428 and 494-1 du même code.
The judge shall, if he considers it appropriate, hear the persons listed in articles 430,494-1 and 494-10 du code civil. This hearing is a matter of right when it is requested by a person applying for…
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