Where the referral to the public prosecutor concerns a prenatal acknowledgement or an acknowledgement concomitant with the declaration of birth, the child’s birth certificate shall be drawn up without any indication of this acknowledgement. .
When the acknowledgement is registered, its effects for the application of articles 311-21 or 311-23 date back to the date of referral to the public prosecutor.
Each of the parents or the child may apply to a notary for the issue of an acte de notoriété, which will be evidence of possession of status until proven otherwise. The acte de notoriété is established on the basis of the statements of at least three witnesses and any other documents produced that attest to a sufficient collection of facts within the meaning of Article 311-1. The deed of…
No action is received as to the parentage of a child who is not born viable.
The judicial court, ruling in civil matters, has sole jurisdiction to hear actions relating to filiation.
In the case of an offence affecting a person’s parentage, the criminal action may only be decided after the judgment on the question of parentage has become res judicata.
As long as it has not been contested in court, legally established filiation prevents the establishment of another filiation that would contradict it.
Except where they are confined by law to a different time limit, actions relating to filiation are prescribed by ten years from the day on which the person was deprived of the status he or she claims, or began to enjoy the status that is contested. In the case of a child, this period is suspended during the child’s minority.
The action may be brought by the heirs of a deceased person before the expiry of the period that was allowed to the deceased person to bring the action. The heirs may also continue the action already brought, unless there has been a withdrawal or lapse of proceedings.
Actions relating to parentage cannot be waived.
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