Any person who, having consented to medically assisted procreation, does not recognise the resulting child is liable to both the mother and the child.
In addition, his paternity is judicially declared. The action is governed by the provisions of articles 328 and 331.
A woman who, after consenting to medically assisted procreation, obstructs the delivery to the civil registrar of the joint acknowledgement referred to in Article 342-10 incurs liability.
If the joint acknowledgement referred to in the same article 342-10 is not provided, it may be communicated to the civil registrar by the public prosecutor at the request of the child of full age, the child’s legal representative if the child is a minor or any person with an interest in taking legal action. The joint acknowledgement is recorded in the margin of the child’s birth certificate. However, the filiation established by the joint acknowledgement may not be entered in the birth record as long as the filiation already established in respect of a third party, by presumption, voluntary acknowledgement or full adoption, has not been contested in court under the conditions provided for in Section 3 of Chapter III of this Title, by third-party proceedings under the conditions provided for in Article 353-2 or by an application for review under the conditions laid down by decree.