French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Evidence and presumptions
Article 311-2
Possession of status must be continuous, peaceful, public and unequivocal.
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Possession of status must be continuous, peaceful, public and unequivocal.
Where the referral to the public prosecutor concerns a prenatal acknowledgement or an acknowledgement concomitant with the declaration of birth, the child's birth certificate shall be drawn up without…
Parentage is established, in respect of the mother, by her designation in the child's birth certificate.
When the acknowledgement is registered, its effects for the application of articles 311-21 or 311-23 date back to the date of referral to the public prosecutor.
Possession of status is established by a sufficient collection of facts that reveal the filiation and kinship link between a person and the family to which he or she is said to belong. The main of the…
Parentage is proved by the child's birth certificate, by the acknowledgement certificate or by the notoriety certificate establishing possession of status. If an action is brought pursuant to Chapter…
A voluntary acknowledgement of paternity or maternity is valid if it was made in accordance with either the personal law of its author or the personal law of the child.
However, if the child and his father and mother or one of them have their habitual residence in France, whether common or separate, possession of status produces all the consequences that flow from it…
The judicial court, ruling in civil matters, has sole jurisdiction to hear actions relating to filiation.
If there exists between the father and mother of the child any of the impediments to marriage provided for by articles 161 and 162 on the grounds of parentage, parentage having already been establishe…
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