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Stillborn children will now be able to benefit from a surname

2021-12-08T06:53:23.481Z


A practice impossible until now, since French law indicated that an individual could only obtain legal personality when he was "born, alive and viable".


It is a question of "

not adding oblivion to the unbearable tragedy

", underlined, last month, the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti.

From now on, the parents of a stillborn child will be able to give it a last name, according to an article of law published Tuesday, December 6 in the Official Journal, spotted by

Le Parisien

.

The child born without life is not nothing.

It belongs to the family

”, pleaded the Keeper of the Seals, during the vote of the law by the Parliament, last month.

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Until now, the child born without life could only benefit from a symbolic first name, since the pregnancy exceeded the fifteenth week.

French law prohibited an individual from obtaining legal personality if he was not “

born, alive and viable

”.

Retroactive law

In this way, the birth certificate of the stillborn child could appear, "

at the request of the father and mother, the first name (s) of the child as well as a name which can be either the name of the father or the name of the mother, that is to say their two names joined in the order chosen by them within the limit of one last name for each of them

”, indicates the article of law, added at the heart of article 79- 1 of the Civil Code.

"

This registration of first and last names has no legal effect

", concludes the text.

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According to the Minister of the Interior, quoted by

Le Parisien

, this law is retroactive, since it also applies to children born lifeless in the past.

"

The documents drawn up can be completed

" with a family name, he said.

This text was tabled in December 2020 by the centrist senator Anne-Catherine Loisier.

Source: lefigaro

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