Section IV: Judicial separation of property.

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…

The judgment pronouncing the separation is published in a newspaper circulated within the jurisdiction of the court that handed it down. The operative part of the judgment is notified to the civil registrar of the place where the marriage was celebrated so that it can be mentioned in the margin of the marriage certificate. Where the union was celebrated abroad and a marriage record has been drawn up or transcribed…

The formalities provided for in Article 1294 shall be completed at the claimant’s own expense.

The judgment rejecting the application for separation of property is published in accordance with paragraph 2 of article 1292.

Enforcement of the decision is not enforceable against the creditors of the spouses if it began before the formalities provided for in article 1294.

Within one year of the completion of these formalities, the creditors of either spouse may lodge a third-party objection against the separation judgment.

The defendant spouse’s admission is not evidence, even if there is no creditor.