Chapter I: The rights of spouses and matrimonial property regimes.

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…

The judgment may not be given until one month after the entry provided for in the preceding article has been made in the margin of the birth certificate of each of the spouses or, if that certificate is not kept in a French register, after the extract of the application has been entered in the civil register mentioned in l’article 4 du décret n° 65-422 du 1er juin 1965 portant…