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Showing 601610 of 44143 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 10-3-2004 n° 02-16.548

French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Appeal in cassation

Article 1087

The suspensive effect attached to an appeal in cassation and its time limit does not apply to the provisions of the decision or the approved agreement that concern maintenance, the contribution to the…

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

Article 1057

The civil register consists of all the extracts of applications, deeds and judgments which, by virtue of the specific texts referring to this register, must be filed and kept at the registries of the…

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

Article 1092

The family affairs judge is seised by the submission of the application to the clerk's office, which is equivalent to a pleading. After hearing the minor under the conditions defined in Title IX bis o…

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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
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
Section I: Presumption of absence

Article 1065

Where the decision has been handed down by the guardianship judge, the transmission is made by the clerk of the judicial court within fifteen days of the expiry of the time limits for appeal.Where the…

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

Article 1060

The entry made in the margin of the birth record, of judgments which reject an application or terminate a measure appearing in the civil register, is automatically supplemented by the indication that…

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

Article 1088

Divorce by mutual consent is a non-contentious matter.

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

Article 1058

The extracts are filed and kept by the registry of the judicial court in whose jurisdiction the person concerned was born and by the central civil status department for persons born abroad..

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

Article 1062

Applications relating to the presumption of absence shall be submitted to the guardianship judge exercising his functions at the judicial court within whose jurisdiction the person whose presumption o…

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