On the appointed day, the judge proceeds in accordance with the procedures set out in articles 250 to 250-3 of the Civil Code; it verifies the admissibility of the application; it ensures that the spouses’ consent is free and informed and draws their attention to the importance of the commitments made by them, particularly with regard to the exercise of parental authority.
With the agreement of the parties, in the presence of the lawyer(s), the judge may have any clauses of the agreement deleted or amended that appear to him or her to be contrary to the interests of the children or of one of the spouses.
The judge will immediately hand down a judgment homologating the agreement and granting the divorce.