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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 1144-4

The divorce agreement that fixes alimony or compensatory allowance in the form of a life annuity sets out the collection procedures and the rules for revising the claim, as well as the criminal penalt…

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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 1147

A mention of the divorce is made in the margin of the marriage certificate and the birth certificate of each of the spouses, at the request of the interested party or his or her lawyer, on the basis o…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions

Article 1149-1

Where, in the case of a change of filiation, the child of full age consents to the change of his or her name, this consent is received by a civil registrar, a notary, a French diplomatic or consular a…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III : Transcription and entry of decisions in civil status registers

Article 1056-2

The public prosecutor with territorial jurisdiction to oppose the celebration of a marriage of a French national abroad is that of the place where the central civil status department of the Ministry o…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: The civil register

Article 1059

Publicity of applications, acts and judgments is effected by an entry in the margin of the birth record of the person concerned. This entry is made at the behest of the clerk of the judicial court or,…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications

Article 1076-1

Where one of the parties has only requested the payment of alimony or a contribution to the expenses of the marriage, the judge may not grant the divorce without inviting the parties to explain the pa…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Publication and proof of judgments

Article 1082

A note of the divorce or legal separation shall be made in the margin of the marriage certificate and the birth certificate of each of the spouses, in view of an extract of the decision containing onl…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Interim measures

Article 1121

The procedures for appointing and the conduct of the assignment of the notary appointed pursuant to 10° of Article 255 of the Civil Code are subject to the provisions of articles 233 to 237, 239, 245,…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection V: Divorce on conversion of legal separation

Article 1134

The order may be appealed within fifteen days of the decision. The appeal is lodged, investigated and judged according to the rules applicable to non-contentious matters.

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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 1145

…r the same conditions, by electronic signature. Where applicable, the form signed and dated by each of the minor children, the liquidation statement of partition in the authenticated form and the auth…

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