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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Presumption of absence

Article 1064

An extract of any decision establishing a presumption of absence or appointing a person to represent a person presumed to be absent and to administer his or her property, as well as any decision modif…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions

Article 1072-1

When it rules on the exercise of parental authority or when a case is referred to it for homologation under the procedure provided for by article 1143 or by articles 1565 et seq, the family court judg…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications

Article 1077

The claim may be based on only one of the cases provided for in the third to sixth paragraphs of Article 229 of the Civil Code. Any claim made in the alternative in any other case is inadmissible. Exc…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: Judicial divorce by mutual consent

Article 1089

The application for divorce is made by a single petition from the spouses.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: Judicial divorce by mutual consent

Article 1090

…e application, which does not state the facts giving rise to the application, must contain, on pain of inadmissibility: 1° The surname, first names, profession, residence, nationality, date and place…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: Judicial divorce by mutual consent

Article 1104

The creditors of either spouse may have the homologated agreement declared unenforceable against them by lodging third-party proceedings against the homologation decision within one year of completion…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: The application and the divorce proceedings

Article 1116

The requests referred to in the second paragraph of article 267 of the Civil Code are admissible only if the parties justify by any means their remaining disagreements. The notarial draft referred to…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Special provisions for accepted divorces

Article 1123

At any time during the proceedings, the spouses may accept the principle of the breakdown of the marriage regardless of the facts giving rise to it.This acceptance may be recorded in a procès-verbal d…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter V: Family proceedings

Article 1136-15

…cation for a protection order, he may nevertheless, if the urgency justifies it and if one or other of the parties has so requested, refer the parties to a hearing, the date of which he fixes, in orde…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter Va: Divorce and legal separation by mutual consent by private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary

Article 1144-3

The divorce agreement specifies the value of the property or rights awarded as compensatory allowance. Where these are subject to land registration, the award is made by deed drawn up in notarial form…

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