Application for the simple adoption of a child by spouses or partners of Civil partnerships or cohabitants

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 the supporting documents in the court of your domicile

As adopters, you must attach the following documents to your application:

• Consent for adoption facts before a notary or before a french consular or diplomatic agent (documents must be attached):
  
  • 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, please indicate all company steps to try to find them.
  • Consent to adoption of the child before a notary or before a French diplomatic or consular agent if he is over 13 years old
  • If the minor over 13 years of age is unable to personally consent to his adoption, the opinion of the ad hoc administrator on the appropriateness of the draft adoption
• Approval issued by the child welfare service of your department
• Full copy less than 3 months old of your birth certificate
• Full copy less than 3 months old of the birth certificate of your spouse, partner or common-law partner
• Full copy less than 3 months old of the adopted child's birth certificate
• Full copy less than 3 months old of the birth certificate of your child(ren) if you have one
• Photocopy of your family booklet and that of the adopted (marriage pages and children pages even if these pages are blank)
• Full copy less than 3 months old of your marriage certificate, or copy of the receipt of the joint declaration of CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS, or the certificate of cohabitation issued in the town hall if applicable or any other documents attesting to the cohabitation (certificates of title, production of a lease mentioning both tenants, etc.)
• Death certificate if the adopted person's parents have died
• Copy of the court decision if the parents have lost their rights of parental authority as a result of the decision
• Copy of the judicial decision declaring the child abandoned if the child has been judicially declared in a situation of parental neglect
• If you are concerned, the consent to adoption of the family council or any person exercising parental authority over the minor
• Acts of non-withdrawal of the parents' consents of the adopted child after the expiry of a period of 2 months
• Details on the choice of the adopted child's surname made by you and your « spouse, partner or cohabiting partner »
• Consent of the child to his change of name, and if he is concerned with his change of first names, if he is over 13 years old (this consent can be made on free paper)
• Certification on honor that you are « neither separated, nor legally separated, nor divorced, nor in the process of divorce »
• Certification on the honor that the requested adoption is not likely to compromise family life if you already have one or more children
• 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 from foreign nationality, you must attach the certificate of custom relating to the national law of the country of which you are a national, in matters of adoption, issued by the consulate or by a lawyer of that country.

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

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

The notice no. 52188#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 e-mail 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.

The registry of the judicial court will send you a copy of the decision rendered.