The provisions of article 311-21 shall apply to a child who becomes French pursuant to the provisions of article 22-1, under the conditions laid down by a decree issued by the Conseil d’Etat.
When filiation is established in respect of only one parent, the child takes that parent’s name. When the second parent-child relationship is established and then during the child’s minority, the parents may, by joint declaration before the civil registrar, choose either to substitute the surname of the parent in respect of whom the parent-child relationship was established in the second place, or to combine their two surnames, in the order…
The option of choice available under articles 311-21 and 311-23 may be exercised only once.
In the event of the birth abroad of a child at least one of whose parents is French, the transcription of the child’s birth record must retain the child’s name as it appears on the foreign birth record. However, at the time of the application for transcription, the parents may opt for the application of French law to determine the name of their child, under the conditions set out in…
Any person of legal age may use one of the names provided for in the first and last paragraphs of article 311-21. With regard to minor children, this option is exercised by both parents exercising parental authority or by the parent exercising parental authority alone. In addition, a parent who has not passed on his or her surname may add it to the name of the minor child as a…
Parentage is established, in respect of the mother, by her designation in the child’s birth certificate.
A child conceived or born during marriage has the husband as its father.
The presumption of paternity is set aside when the child’s birth certificate does not name the husband as the father. It is further set aside where the child was born more than three hundred days after the application for divorce or legal separation was lodged or after the agreement settling all the consequences of the divorce was filed with a notary, and less than one hundred and eighty days since…
If it was dismissed pursuant to article 313, the presumption of paternity is re-established by operation of law if the child has possession of status with regard to the husband and does not have paternal filiation already established with regard to a third party.
Where the presumption of paternity is set aside under the conditions provided for in article 313, its effects may be re-established in court under the conditions provided for in l’article 329. The husband also has the option of recognising the child under the conditions set out in articles 316 et 320.
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