If the spouses or one of them has died without discovering the fraud, the criminal action may be brought by all those who have an interest in having the marriage declared valid, and by the public prosecutor.
If the public official has died when the fraud is discovered, the civil action will be brought against his heirs, by the public prosecutor, in the presence of the interested parties, and on their denunciation.
A marriage which has been declared null shall, nevertheless, produce its effects in respect of the spouses, where it was contracted in good faith. If good faith exists only on the part of one of the spouses, the marriage shall produce its effects only in favour of that spouse.
It also produces its effects with regard to the children, even if neither spouse had acted in good faith. The judge rules on the terms and conditions of the exercise of parental authority as in divorce matters.
The qualities and conditions required to be able to contract marriage are governed, for each of the spouses, by their personal law. Whatever the applicable personal law, marriage requires the consent of the spouses, within the meaning of Article 146 and the first paragraph of Article 180. Two persons of the same sex may contract marriage where, for at least one of them, either his personal law or the law…
The marriage is validly celebrated if it was celebrated in accordance with the formalities laid down by the law of the State in whose territory the celebration took place.
The spouses contract together, by the mere fact of marriage, the obligation to feed, maintain and bring up their children.
The child has no action against its father and mother for establishment by marriage or otherwise.
Children owe maintenance to their father and mother or other ascendants who are in need.
Son-in-law and daughter-in-law also owe maintenance to their father-in-law and mother-in-law in the same circumstances, but this obligation ceases when the spouse who produced the affinity and the children from his or her union with the other spouse have died.
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