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Article 1252 of the French Code of civil procedure

When the assets of an adult placed under court protection are in danger of being jeopardised, the public prosecutor or the guardianship judge may take any protective measures and, in particular, request or order the affixing of seals. In the event of difficulty, the judicial officer shall inform the guardianship judge or the public prosecutor. The costs incurred by these measures are treated in the same way as the legal…

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Article 1252-1 of the French Code of civil procedure

If it appears that the consistency of the property does not justify the affixing of seals, the public prosecutor or the guardianship judge may request any bailiff, the police commissioner, the commander of the gendarmerie brigade or the mayor, to draw up a descriptive inventory of the furniture and, if the premises are unoccupied, to ensure their closure and to keep the keys. The keys are returned to the protected…

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Article 1253 of the French Code of civil procedure

The property inventory operations provided for in article 503 of the Civil Code are carried out in the presence of the protected person, if their state of health or age allows, their lawyer, if applicable, and, if the inventory is not carried out by a public or ministerial officer, two witnesses of full age who are not in the service of the protected person or the person exercising the protective…

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Article 1254-1 of the French Code of civil procedure

For the application of the article 511 of the Civil Code, where the protected person’s resources allow and the director of the registry considers it useful, the latter may request, at the protected person’s expense, the assistance of a bailiff in his task of verifying the accounts. The protected person and the person appointed to exercise the protection measure are informed of this by any means; they may refer this…

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Article 1256 of the French Code of civil procedure

Where the medical certificate described by article 431 of the Civil Code and the medical opinion referred to in articles 426 and 432 of the same code are requested by the public prosecutor or ordered by the guardianship judge, they are paid for under the conditions provided for in 3° of Article R. 93 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and recovery of their cost is pursued according to the…

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Article 1258 of the French Code of civil procedure

For the implementation of the future protection mandate established pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 477 of the Civil Code, the mandatary shall appear in person at the registry of the judicial court in whose jurisdiction the mandator resides, accompanied by the mandator, unless it is established, by medical certificate, that his presence at the court is incompatible with his state of health. The agent shall present to the…

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Article 1258-1 of the French Code of civil procedure

For the implementation of the future protection mandate established pursuant to the third paragraph of Article 477 of the Civil Code, the mandatary shall appear in person at the registry of the judicial court in whose jurisdiction the beneficiary of the mandate resides, accompanied by the latter, unless it is established, by medical certificate, that his presence at the court is incompatible with his state of health. The mandatary shall…

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