French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.
Article 1395
Matrimonial agreements must be drawn up before the marriage is celebrated and can only take effect on the day of that celebration.
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Matrimonial agreements must be drawn up before the marriage is celebrated and can only take effect on the day of that celebration.
Where the designation of the applicable law is made during the marriage, that designation takes effect between the parties as from the drawing up of the instrument of designation and, as regards third…
The spouses may agree, in the interests of the family, to modify their matrimonial property regime, or even change it entirely, by notarial deed. On pain of nullity, the notarial deed contains the liq…
Where the spouses designate the law applicable to their matrimonial property regime by virtue of the Convention on the Law Applicable to Matrimonial Property Regimes, done at The Hague on 14 March 197…
Where a change to the matrimonial property regime occurs by application of a foreign law governing the effects of the union, the spouses shall carry out the publicity formalities provided for in the C…
All matrimonial agreements shall be drawn up by deed before a notary, in the presence and with the simultaneous consent of all the persons who are parties thereto or their proxies. When the contract i…
Any changes made to matrimonial agreements before the marriage is celebrated must be recorded by a deed drawn up in the same form. No change or counter-letter is, moreover, valid without the simultane…
The provisions of the preceding article do not apply to agreements that are made by spouses who are divorcing with a view to liquidating their matrimonial property regime. Articles 265-2 and 1451 are…
An adult under guardianship or curatorship may not enter into matrimonial agreements without being assisted in the contract by his or her guardian or curator.Failing such assistance, the annulment of…
The change of matrimonial property regime takes effect between the parties from the date of the decision or deed providing for it and, with regard to third parties, three months after the publicity fo…
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