French Civil Code

The adopter has sole parental authority over the adopted child, including the right to consent to the marriage of the adopted child. The rights of parental authority are exercised by the adopter(s) under the conditions laid down by Chapter I of Title IX of this Book. The rights of parental authority are exercised by the adopter or adopters under the conditions laid down in Chapter I of Title IX of…

A simple adoption confers the adopter’s name on the adopted person by adding it to the latter’s name. However, if the adopted person is over thirteen years of age, he or she must consent to this addition. Where the adopted person and the adopter, or one of them, bear a double surname, the name conferred on the adopted person results from the addition of the adopter’s surname to his or…

The provisions of Article 363 are applicable to a child who has been the subject of an adoption duly granted abroad having in France the effects of a simple adoption, where the adopted person’s birth certificate is kept by a French authority. Adopters exercise the option open to them by this article by declaration addressed to the public prosecutor of the place where the birth record is kept at the…

The adopted person and his or her descendants have, in the adopter’s family, the succession rights provided for in Chapter III of Title I of Book III. The adopted person and his or her descendants do not, however, have the status of a reserved heir in respect of the adopter’s ascendants.

In the adopted person’s estate, in the absence of descendants and a surviving spouse, the property donated by the adopter or received into his or her estate reverts to the adopter or his or her descendants, if it still exists in kind at the time of the adopted person’s death, subject to contributing to the debts and subject to the rights acquired by third parties. Property that the adopted person…

The adoption retains all its effects, notwithstanding the subsequent establishment of a parent-child relationship.

If serious grounds are shown, the adoption may be revoked, where the adopted person is of age, at the request of the latter or of the adopter. Where the adopted person is a minor, revocation of the adoption may be requested only by the public prosecutor.

Reasons must be given for the judgment revoking the adoption. The operative part of the judgment is mentioned in the margin of the birth certificate or the transcription of the adoption judgment, under the conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. .

The revocation causes all the effects of the adoption to cease for the future, with the exception of the change of forenames.