Section 2: Effects of full adoption

Plenary adoption confers on the child a filiation that replaces his or her original filiation: the adopted child ceases to belong to his or her original family, subject to the prohibitions on marriage set out in articles 161 to 164.

Plenary adoption confers on the child the name of the adopter. In the event of the adoption of a child by a couple, or the adopters choose, by joint declaration, the surname devolving on the child: either the name of one of them, or their two names together in the order chosen by them, subject to a limit of one surname for each of them. This option of choice may…

With the exception of its last paragraph, Article 357 is applicable to a child who has been the subject of an adoption duly pronounced abroad having in France the effects of a full adoption. The adopters shall exercise the option available to them under this article when applying for transcription of the adoption judgment, by a declaration addressed to the public prosecutor of the place where such transcription is to…

The adoption is irrevocable.