The application for divorce is made by writ of summons or by petition delivered or addressed jointly by the parties to the court registry and contains, on pain of nullity, the place, date and time of the orientation hearing and on provisional measures.
This date is communicated by the court to the applicant in accordance with procedures defined by order of the Keeper of the Seals.
On pain of inadmissibility, the document instituting proceedings shall not indicate either the legal basis of the application for divorce where it falls within the scope of Article 242 of the Civil Code, or the facts giving rise to it.
Where the plaintiff has not indicated the basis of the application for divorce in the document instituting proceedings, the defendant may not himself do so before the plaintiff’s first submissions on the merits or, failing that, before the expiry of the time limit set by the pre-trial judge by injunction to conclude.