Application for simple adoption of a minor by an individual

1. Print the form
2. Fill the form
3. Date and sign the form
4. Attach the documents supporting documents
5. Submit or send by letter RAR: titleContent the form and supporting documents at the court of your domicile

As an adopter, you must include the following documents with your application:

• The consent(s) for adoption made before a notary or before a French consular or diplomatic agent (documents to be attached imperatively):
  
  • Consent to adoption by the adoptee's parents, not deprived of their parental rights, made before a notary or before a French consular or diplomatic agent, or before the child welfare service that took in the child. If it is not possible to provide parental consent, all due diligence companies to try to find them.
  • If you are married, consent of your spouse to the simple adoption project established before a notary or before a French consular or diplomatic agent
  • Consent to adoption of the adopted person before a notary or before French diplomatic or consular agents if he or she is over 13 years of age
• Accreditation issued by the child welfare department of your department
• Full copy less than 3 months old of your birth certificate
• Full copy less than 3 months old of the adopted person's birth certificate
• Full copy of the birth certificate of your child(ren), if you have one, less than 3 months old
• Photocopy of your family booklet and that of the adopted (marriage pages and children pages even if these pages are blank)
• If you are concerned, the full copy of your marriage certificate dated less than 3 months or the copy of your marriage certificate Civil partnerships: titleContent
• If you are concerned, a full copy of your Civil partnership's or partner's birth certificate dated less than 3 months
• If you are concerned, the consent to adoption of the family council or any person exercising parental authority over the adopted person
• Copy of the court decision if the parents have lost their rights of parental authority as a result of this decision
• Copy of the judicial decision declaring the child abandoned if the child was judicially declared in a situation of parental neglect
• Death certificate if the parents of the adopted child have died
• Acts of non-withdrawal of the adoptee's parents' consents after a period of 2 months
• Details on the choice of the adopted person's name
• Consent of the adopted person to change his/her name, and if applicable his/her first name, if he/she is over 13 years old (this consent can be given on free paper)
• Certification on honor that the adoption requested is not likely to compromise family life if you already have one or more children
• If you are married, the sworn statement that you are “neither legally separated, nor divorced, nor in the process of divorce”
• Advice from your adult children about the adoption project. If your children are minors, please specify their age and the relationship with the adopted child.

If you are a foreign national, you must attach the certificate of custom, relating to the national law of the country of which you are a national, on adoption, issued by the consulate or by a lawyer of that country.

If you are domiciled abroad after your marriage, you must attach the certificate of custom, relating to the law, in matters of adoption, of the country of your first domicile after marriage, issued by the consulate or by a lawyer of that country.

If the adopted child is a minor foreigner, you must attach a double-sided copy of his/her proof of identity and the certificate of custom issued by the consulate or a lawyer of the country of which he/she is a national proving that the personal law of the child does not prohibit his/her simple adoption (this does not concern the minor foreigner born and residing in France).

The notice no. 52185#04 outlines the process to be followed.

The hearing, if the judge deems it useful, takes place in council chamber. You are summoned by post or by email to the address indicated in your request.

At the hearing, the judge hears your explanations, examines the documents provided to him and asks the questions he considers useful.

Its task is to verify that the conditions for adoption are met and that it is in the best interests of the adopted child.

The judgment shall be delivered in open court.

You receive a copy of the decision rendered, by the Registry of the Judicial Tribunal.