Chapter V: Intercountry adoption, conflicts of law and the effect in France of adoptions granted abroad

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.