https://legal.excellentwiki.com/france/family-law/ Recent content in Family Law on ExcellentWiki - Legal Encyclopedia Hugo en-US Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://legal.excellentwiki.com/france/family-law/french-family-law/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://legal.excellentwiki.com/france/family-law/french-family-law/ <h2 id="sources-of-french-family-law">Sources of French Family Law</h2> <p>French family law (droit de la famille) is codified in Book I of the Civil Code (Code civil), which originally entered into force on 21 March 1804 under the title Des Personnes. The 1804 provisions, deeply influenced by Napoleonic patriarchal conceptions of the family, have been almost entirely replaced by successive reforms. The modern law is found principally in Articles 144-515 of the Civil Code, supplemented by specialised statutes and by the jurisprudence of the Court of Cassation (Cour de cassation).</p>