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GENERAL INTRODUCTION

General information

Texts regulating civil registration

Organisation of civil registration 

Civil registers

Documents issued from the registers

Consultation of registers

Useful address

CHAPTER 1. GENERAL ORGANISATION

1.1. Historical development

1.2. Organisation of the registration service

1.3. Consular registration

1.4. Specific observations

CHAPTER 2. common rules for the registration of various events

2.1. Registration of events

2.2. Correction - Cancellation - Replacement - Addition

2.3. Transcription and notation

2.4. Subsequent information

2.5. Copies and extracts from registers

2.6. Family record book

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CHAPTEr 3. birth and parentage

3.1. Birth

3.2. Maternity

3.3. Legitimacy and legitimation 

3.4. Acknowledgement

3.5. Possession of status

3.6. Assisted reproduction

3.7. Adoption

3.8. Texts

CHAPITEr 4. marriage - Civil Partnerships - separation - dissolution of marriage

4.1.    Marriage: general information

4.1.5. Specific observations: Civil Partnerships

4.2.    Marriage: conditions

4.3.    Marriage: solemnisation

4.4.    Entry of marriage

4.5.    Separation

4.6.    Divorce - Non-existence - Nullity

chapter 5. death - absence

5.1. Death

5.2. Absence

5.3. Presumption of death

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chapter 6. nationality

6.1. Acquisition

6.2. Renunciation

6.3. Loss

6.4. Resumption

6.5. Proof

6.6. International conventions

6.7. Texts

chaptere 7. surname - forename

7.1. Surname of children

7.2. Surname of spouse

7.3. Change of surname

7.4. Forename

chapter 8. civil status under international law

8.1. Civil status of nationals abroad

8.2. Civil status of foreign nationals in the national territory

8.3. Foreign decisions

8.4. Refugees and stateless persons

chapter 9. lack of capacity

9.1. Minority and emancipation

9.2. Protected adults

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