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Article 373-2-12 of the French Civil Code

Prior to any decision setting the terms and conditions for the exercise of parental authority and visiting rights or entrusting the children to a third party, the judge may commission any qualified person to carry out a social investigation. The purpose of this is to gather information about the family’s situation and the conditions in which the children live and are brought up. If one of the parents disputes the…

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Article 373-2-13 of the French Civil Code

The provisions contained in the approved agreement or in the divorce agreement by mutual consent in the form of a private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary, as well as decisions relating to the exercise of parental authority, may be amended or supplemented at any time by the judge, at the request of the parties or of a parent or of the public prosecutor, who may himself…

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Article 373-3 of the French Civil Code

The judge may, by way of exception and if the interests of the child so require, in particular where one of the parents is deprived of the exercise of parental authority, decide to entrust the child to a third party, preferably chosen from among the child’s relatives. The matter shall be referred to and decided in accordance with articles 373-2-8 and 373-2-11. In exceptional circumstances, the family court judge who…

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Article 373-4 of the French Civil Code

Where the child has been entrusted to a third party, parental authority continues to be exercised by the father and mother; however, the person to whom the child has been entrusted performs all the usual acts relating to the child’s supervision and upbringing. The family affairs judge, in entrusting the child on a provisional basis to a third party, may decide that he will have to request the opening of…

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Article 375 of the French Civil Code

If the health, safety or morals of an unemancipated minor are in danger, or if the conditions for his or her education or physical, emotional, intellectual and social development are seriously compromised, educational assistance measures may be ordered by the court at the request of the father and mother jointly, or one of them, the person or service to whom the child has been entrusted or the guardian, the minor…

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Article 375-1 of the French Civil Code

The children’s judge has jurisdiction, subject to appeal, in all matters relating to educational assistance. He must always endeavour to obtain the family’s support for the measure envisaged and decide in strict consideration of the child’s interests. He must systematically carry out an individual interview with the child capable of discernment during his hearing or hearing. When the interests of the child so require, the children’s judge, of his or…

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