Article 370-1-6 of the French Civil Code
November 8, 2023
A child previously adopted by a single person, in the simple or plenary form, may be adopted a second time, by the other member of the couple, in the simple form.
A child previously adopted by a single person, in the simple or plenary form, may be adopted a second time, by the other member of the couple, in the simple form.
Simple adoption confers the adopter’s name on the adopted person by adding it to the latter’s name. However, if the adopted person is over thirteen years of age, he or she must consent to this addition. Where the adopted person and the adopter, or one of them, bear a double surname, the name conferred on the adopted person results from the addition of the adopter’s name to his or her…
The adopter holds parental authority concurrently with the other member of the couple, who retains sole exercise of that authority, subject to a joint declaration with the adopter addressed to the director of the judicial registry services of the judicial court for the purposes of joint exercise of that authority.
An adoption is international 1° Where a minor habitually resident in a foreign State has been, is being or is to be moved, in connection with his or her adoption, to France, where the adopter or adopters habitually reside; 2° Where a minor habitually resident in France has been, is or is to be moved, in connection with his or her adoption, to a foreign State, where the adopter(s) habitually…
The conditions of adoption are subject to the national law of the adopter or, in the case of adoption by a couple, to the common national law of the two members of the couple on the day on which the adoption application is lodged or, failing that, to the law of their common habitual residence on the day on which the adoption application is lodged or, failing that, to the…
The effects of an adoption granted in France are those of French law.
An adoption duly granted abroad produces in France the effects of a full adoption if it completely and irrevocably breaks the pre-existing parent-child relationship. Otherwise, it produces the effects of simple adoption. It may be converted into a full adoption if the requisite consents have been expressly given with full knowledge of the facts.
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