Title I: Individuals

Educational assistance measures are taken by the children’s judge of the place where one of the parents, the minor’s guardian or the person or service to whom the child has been entrusted resides, as the case may be; failing this, by the judge of the place where the minor resides. If the person mentioned in the previous paragraph changes their place of residence, the judge will relinquish jurisdiction in favour…

The judge gives notice of the initiation of proceedings to the public prosecutor; when they are not petitioners, he also gives notice to each of the parents, the guardian, the person or representative of the service to which the child has been entrusted. He hears each of the parents, the guardian, the person or representative of the service to which the child has been entrusted and the minor capable of…

The judge may, either of his own motion or at the request of the parties or the public prosecutor, order any measure of information concerning the personality and living conditions of the minor and his parents, in particular by means of a social enquiry, medical examinations, psychiatric and psychological expert reports or an educational investigation and guidance measure.

The provisional measures provided for in the first paragraph of article 375-5 of the Civil Code, as well as the information measures provided for in article 1183 of this code, may only be taken, except in the case of a specially-reasoned emergency, if the hearing prescribed by article 1182, of each of the parents, the guardian, the person or representative of the service to whom the child has been entrusted…