The application for separation of property is brought before the family court of the family’s residence. It obeys the rules of Article 1136-1.
An extract of the application shall be forwarded by the applicant’s lawyer to the registries of the judicial courts within the jurisdiction of which both spouses were born, for the purpose of retention in the civil register and publication by mention in the margin of the birth certificate in accordance with the procedures laid down in Chapter III of Title I of this Book.
An extract of the application may, in addition, be published in a newspaper circulated within the jurisdiction of the court seised.