With this bill supported by the majority, any adult will be able once in their life to take the name of their mother, their father, or both.
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To end “which can be a pain sometimes”. The majority wants to simplify the change of surname via a bill, announced Sunday, December 19 the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti in an interview with the magazine Elle (article reserved for subscribers).
This text aims to put an end to certain situations, such as “the mother (who) brings up her child alone who bears the name of her father” and that “wants to register him in the canteen or in judo”, or “we ask him if it is indeed his son or his daughter”, which is “humiliating”. Or the last names that “go out”, “the child who bears the name” of his “progenitor who forgot his homework”.
“The law will allow the child to bear, as a customary, the mother’s name, either by bearing only her name, or the name of the mother will be added to that of the father, or the order will be changed. surnames “, announces the Minister. “It will take the validation of both parents and in the absence of this agreement, there will be recourse to the judge. Moreover, if the minor is over thirteen years old, it will also be necessary to ask for his agreement”, he specifies.
“For adults, once in their life, after 18 years of age, we will give each French person the freedom to choose their last name to keep that of their mother only, that of their father, or both, in the sense that we will wish “, he also announces. “From now on, a Cerfa declaration to the civil status of your town hall will suffice”, which according to Eric Dupond-Moretti will replace “a long and humiliating procedure”.
At the end of November, the Parliament adopted a bill of symbolic value aimed at allowing a family name to be given to children born without life.