Paragraph 4: Special provisions for accepted divorces

At any time during the proceedings, the spouses may accept the principle of the breakdown of the marriage regardless of the facts giving rise to it. This acceptance may be recorded in a procès-verbal drawn up by the judge and signed by the spouses and their respective lawyers at any hearing on provisional measures. During the proceedings, the request made pursuant to Article 247-1 of the Civil Code must be…

Acceptance of the principle of the breakdown of the marriage regardless of the facts giving rise to it may also result from a document signed privately by the parties and countersigned by lawyers in the six months preceding the application for divorce or during the proceedings. If it is drawn up prior to the application for divorce, it is attached to the application initiating proceedings made jointly by the parties….

The family affairs judge shall grant the divorce on no grounds other than the spouses’ acceptance.

The costs of the proceedings, up to and including the writ of summons to have the divorce granted, shall be shared equally between the spouses, unless the judge decides otherwise.