Placement with a view to full adoption precludes any return of the child to his or her family of origin. It defeats any declaration of filiation and any recognition. If the placement with a view to adoption ceases or if the court refuses to grant the adoption, the effects of this placement are retroactively resolved.
In the case of the adoption of a ward of the State or a foreign child who is not the child of the adopter’s spouse, partner bound by a civil solidarity pact or cohabiting partner, the court shall check before granting the adoption that the applicant or applicants have obtained approval to adopt or were exempt from obtaining approval. If approval has been refused or has not been granted within…
Adoption is granted at the request of the adopter or adopters by the judicial court, which verifies within a period of six months from the date of referral to the court whether the conditions of the law are met and whether the adoption is in the child’s interest. The minor capable of discernment is heard by the court or, where his or her interests so require, by the person appointed…
Third-party proceedings against the adoption judgment are admissible only in the event of fraud or deceit attributable to the adopters or to the spouse, partner bound by a civil solidarity pact or cohabiting partner of the adopter. Concealment to the court of the maintenance of ties between the adopted child and a third party, decided by the family affairs judge on the basis of Article 371-4, as well as concealing…
The judgment pronouncing the adoption is mentioned or transcribed in the civil status registers under the conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. The transcription takes the place of the birth certificate of the adopted person. The transcription takes the place of the adopted person’s birth certificate. It states the day, time and place of birth, the child’s sex, surname and forenames as they appear in the adoption…
The court pronounces a full adoption or a simple adoption. The adoption takes effect from the day on which the adoption petition is filed.
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…
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