It is a decision which could mark a milestone in the evolution of filiation.
A possible upheaval in the definition of motherhood.
Man turned woman, can Claire * be recognized as mother and not as father on the birth certificate of her child?
The Court of Cassation is due to decide this question on Wednesday.
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At the end of June, the attorney general of the high court decided in favor of the recognition of Claire, born a man, as the mother of her daughter, in the civil registry.
The 6-year-old child was conceived with his wife after becoming a woman in the civil registry in 2011. Her transitional operation took place as a second step.
Already the parent of two children before this sex change, the couple became parents a third time in 2014.
Before the birth of her last daughter, Claire had gone to a notary to have her filiation link with the child recognized as a "non-gestational" mother.
Faced with a legal vacuum, the Montpellier Court of Appeal, at the end of 2018, had
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