Chapter III: Effects of adoption

The adopted person and his or her descendants have, in the adopter’s family, the succession rights provided for in Chapter III of Title I of Book III. The adopted person and his or her descendants do not, however, have the status of a reserved heir in respect of the adopter’s ascendants.

In the adopted person’s estate, in the absence of descendants and a surviving spouse, the property donated by the adopter or received into his or her estate reverts to the adopter or his or her descendants, if it still exists in kind at the time of the adopted person’s death, subject to contributing to the debts and subject to the rights acquired by third parties. Property that the adopted person…

The adoption retains all its effects, notwithstanding the subsequent establishment of a parent-child relationship.

If serious grounds are shown, the adoption may be revoked, where the adopted person is of age, at the request of the latter or of the adopter. Where the adopted person is a minor, revocation of the adoption may be requested only by the public prosecutor.

Reasons must be given for the judgment revoking the adoption. The operative part of the judgment is mentioned in the margin of the birth certificate or the transcription of the adoption judgment, under the conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. .

The revocation causes all the effects of the adoption to cease for the future, with the exception of the change of forenames.