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Showing 271–280 of 36847 articles for “Art. L. 145-36”
A simple adoption confers the adopter's name on the adopted person by adding it to the latter's name. However, if the adopted person is over thirteen years of age, he or she must consent to this addit…
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The adopter has sole parental authority over the adopted child, including the right to consent to the marriage of the adopted child. The rights of parental authority are exercised by the adopter(s) un…
If serious grounds are shown, the adoption may be revoked, where the adopted person is of age, at the request of the latter or of the adopter.Where the adopted person is a minor, revocation of the ado…
The adoption retains all its effects, notwithstanding the subsequent establishment of a parent-child relationship.
Reasons must be given for the judgment revoking the adoption.The operative part of the judgment is mentioned in the margin of the birth certificate or the transcription of the adoption judgment, under…
In the adopted person's estate, in the absence of descendants and a surviving spouse, the property donated by the adopter or received into his or her estate reverts to the adopter or his or her descen…
The adopted person and his or her descendants have, in the adopter's family, the succession rights provided for in Chapter III of Title I of Book III.The adopted person and his or her descendants do n…
The Public Prosecutor may direct the public prosecutors, by written instructions placed in the case file, to institute proceedings or have proceedings instituted, or to refer to the competent court su…
No person who has been legally acquitted may again be convicted or charged in respect of the same acts, even under a different characterisation.
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