Section II: Judicial divorce and legal separation

Unless the legal separation has been pronounced by mutual consent, the application for conversion shall be lodged, investigated and judged in accordance with the ordinary written procedure. No counterclaim is admissible, except on the consequences of the divorce.

In the event of legal separation by mutual consent, and where a minor applies to be heard by the judge, the application for conversion to divorce by mutual consent based on article 230 of the Civil Code shall contain, on pain of inadmissibility, the particulars required by article 1090, an indication of the decision that pronounced the legal separation, and is accompanied by an agreement on the consequences of the…

In the case provided for in the preceding article, the judge may not hear the spouses and simply examine the agreement with their lawyer. If there are no difficulties, he shall homologate the agreement and pronounce the divorce. Otherwise he may, without further formality, ask the spouses to present the petition again within one month, after amending the agreement; if this request is not complied with, the judge issues an…

The order may be appealed within fifteen days of the decision. The appeal is lodged, investigated and judged according to the rules applicable to non-contentious matters.

The investigation of the case and the hearing of the spouses are limited, in any event, to the effects of the decision.

The costs of the conversion proceedings shall be apportioned in the same way as those of the legal separation proceedings. The costs relating to the appeal proceedings shall be treated as those of new proceedings.