The application is made by petition delivered or addressed to the registry. Where applicable, the application shall specify whether the application also seeks a change of forenames. The assistance of a lawyer is not compulsory.
The case is heard and debated in chambers, after obtaining the opinion of the public prosecutor. Decisions are rendered in the absence of the public.
The court orders the change of forenames in the civil status records of the spouses, and, where applicable, the children, after noting the consent of the interested parties or their legal representatives. The person whose civil status is in question or his or her legal representative may be heard. The beneficiary of the change of forename may also apply for this change, subsequent to the court’s decision, to the public…
The court’s decision is provisionally enforceable only if it so orders.
The operative part of any decision ordered to be transcribed or entered in the civil status registers must state the forenames and surnames of the parties and, as the case may be, the place where the transcription is to be made or the places and dates of the records in the margin of which the entry is to be made. Only the operative part of the decision is sent to…
The action for a judicial declaration of birth is governed by the provisions of articles 1049 to 1055. The operative part of the decision, containing the statements provided for in Article 57 of the Civil Code, is immediately transmitted by the public prosecutor to the civil registrar.
The public prosecutor with territorial jurisdiction to oppose the celebration of a marriage of a French national abroad is that of the place where the central civil status department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is established. He alone is also competent to rule on the transcription of the foreign marriage record in French civil status registers and to pursue the annulment of this marriage. It also has sole jurisdiction,…
The civil register consists of all the extracts of applications, deeds and judgments which, by virtue of the specific texts referring to this register, must be filed and kept at the registries of the judicial courts. The extracts are entered in a register, day by day and in numerical order.
The extracts are filed and kept by the registry of the judicial court in whose jurisdiction the person concerned was born and by the central civil status department for persons born abroad. .
Publicity of applications, acts and judgments is effected by an entry in the margin of the birth record of the person concerned. This entry is made at the behest of the clerk of the judicial court or, where applicable, at the behest of the central civil status department. It consists of the indication “RC” followed by the reference under which the application, the record or the judgment has been kept….
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