Law of Persons Practice Quiz (51 questions)

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1. Which statement correctly distinguishes objective law from subjective rights?

Objective law consists of compulsory rules, whereas subjective rights belong to their holders.
Objective law belongs to individuals, whereas subjective rights consist of compulsory social rules.
Objective law identifies legal objects, whereas subjective rights organize public authorities.
Objective law protects vulnerable persons, whereas subjective rights define civil-status information.

Objective law consists of compulsory rules, whereas subjective rights belong to their holders.

Explanation

Objective law is the body of compulsory rules governing social relationships, while subjective rights are prerogatives held by individuals or groups. The second choice reverses these concepts by treating rules as rights and rights as rules.

2. Which legal classification governs a dispute between a municipality and a private company over a public-service contract?

The law of persons, because the dispute concerns the identity of the company.
Public law, because the dispute involves a public person.
Civil law, because public authorities have no legal relationships with companies.
Private law, because every contract concerns private economic activity.

Public law, because the dispute involves a public person.

Explanation

Public law governs relationships involving public persons and the organization or operation of public authorities. A contract involving a municipality is not classified as private law merely because a company is also a party.

3. What is the role of civil law within the legal system?

It concerns the criminal liability of individuals and legal entities.
It provides common rules for private persons unless a special branch applies.
It regulates public authorities whenever they exercise governmental powers.
It protects vulnerable persons without governing other private relationships.

It provides common rules for private persons unless a special branch applies.

Explanation

Civil law is the common law applicable to private persons when no special branch, such as commercial or employment law, governs the relationship. Public-authority regulation belongs to public law, while protection of vulnerable persons is a more specific subject within the law of persons.

4. A legal rule protects minors and certain adults who need assistance with decision-making. Which branch of civil law is most directly concerned?

The law of persons, because it addresses legal identity and vulnerable persons.
Commercial law, because protection requires rules for economic transactions.
Public law, because every protective measure concerns a public authority.
The law of obligations, because vulnerability removes a person’s legal identity.

The law of persons, because it addresses legal identity and vulnerable persons.

Explanation

The law of persons concerns persons in the legal sense, including their identification and the protection of vulnerable persons. Commercial law focuses on commercial relationships, and vulnerability does not eliminate legal identity.

5. What does legal personality enable a person to do?

Hold rights and obligations and act legally personally or through representation.
Exercise every right independently without regard to representation or protection.
Own physical objects while remaining outside the system of legal obligations.
Receive civil-status information without being able to bear legal duties.

Hold rights and obligations and act legally personally or through representation.

Explanation

Legal personality is the capacity to hold rights and be bound by obligations, with legal action possible personally or through representation. The second choice confuses legal personality with unrestricted capacity to act.

6. Which example correctly identifies a legal subject and a legal object?

A company and its machine are both legal objects because rights can concern both.
A company and its machine are both legal subjects because both have economic value.
A machine is a legal subject, while the company owning it is a legal object.
A company is a legal subject, while a machine it owns is a legal object.

A company is a legal subject, while a machine it owns is a legal object.

Explanation

A legal subject holds rights and obligations, whereas a legal object is something over which rights may be exercised. A company has legal personality, while its machine is property that can be owned.

7. What distinguishes a legal person from a natural person?

A legal person is a legally recognized group distinct from its members, whereas a natural person is a human being.
A legal person is a human being represented by another, whereas a natural person is a group recognized by law.
A legal person is a public authority, whereas a natural person is a private organization with separate assets.
A legal person is an object owned by a company, whereas a natural person is an object owned by an individual.

A legal person is a legally recognized group distinct from its members, whereas a natural person is a human being.

Explanation

A natural person is a human being, while a legal person is a group, such as a company or association, recognized as having a personality distinct from its members. Legal persons are not limited to public authorities, and neither category is defined as a legal object.

8. What is the primary legal purpose of declaring a birth at the town hall within five days?

It allows the civil-status officer to prepare a birth certificate recording the child’s identifying information.
It transfers parental rights to the civil-status officer who registers the child.
It determines the medical viability threshold that French law applies to every newborn.
It automatically establishes legal personality even if the child was not born alive and viable.

It allows the civil-status officer to prepare a birth certificate recording the child’s identifying information.

Explanation

Birth registration establishes the child’s civil status by recording information such as name, given name, sex, birth date, and parents. Registration does not by itself establish legal personality, which requires live and viable birth.

9. Under the rule governing acquisition of legal personality, which newborn acquires legal personality?

A stillborn child whose birth was declared at the town hall within five days.
A fetus reaching a medical pregnancy threshold before being born alive.
A child born alive and viable, with breathing and organs necessary for life.
A non-viable child whose parents received a birth certificate from the civil-status officer.

A child born alive and viable, with breathing and organs necessary for life.

Explanation

Legal personality is acquired when the child is born alive and viable, meaning the child breathes and has the organs necessary for life. A birth declaration or medical pregnancy threshold cannot replace these requirements.

10. What documents are issued when a child is born alive and viable but dies before the birth is registered?

An act of a child born without life and a family record book
A birth certificate after a court ruling and no death certificate
A birth certificate and a death certificate based on a medical certificate
A death certificate and a family record book without a birth certificate

A birth certificate and a death certificate based on a medical certificate

Explanation

A child born alive and viable acquires legal personality, so the child receives both birth and death certificates when death occurs before registration. An act of a child born without life applies when the child lacks the characteristics of live and viable birth.

11. What may parents request when a child is not born alive and viable and a medical certificate of childbirth exists?

A birth certificate, a death certificate, and automatic legal personality
A death certificate, a family name, and an inheritance share
A birth certificate, a given name, and recognition of legal personality
An act of a child born without life, a given name, and a family record book

An act of a child born without life, a given name, and a family record book

Explanation

Article 79-1 allows parents to obtain an act of a child born without life, a given name, and a family record book when the required medical certificate exists. This act records the event but does not establish that the child acquired legal personality.

12. Under the infans conceptus principle, when may a merely conceived child be treated as already born?

When a medical certificate confirms childbirth, regardless of whether the child is born alive and viable
When conception occurs after the relevant event but the child is later born with legal representation
When doing so benefits the child, provided the child was conceived at the relevant time and is later born alive and viable
When the parents request recognition, even if the child is later stillborn or not viable

When doing so benefits the child, provided the child was conceived at the relevant time and is later born alive and viable

Explanation

The principle protects a conceived child by treating the child as born when that benefits the child, but it requires conception at the relevant time and later live, viable birth. A medical certificate or parental request cannot replace those conditions.

13. What event ends a person’s legal personality under contemporary civil law?

A court declaration of death, even while biological life continues
Biological death, because civil death was abolished in 1804
The recording of death by a civil-status officer, which creates death itself
The opening of succession, which precedes the person’s physical death

Biological death, because civil death was abolished in 1804

Explanation

Legal personality ends with biological death, and civil death has not existed since 1804. Registration and succession follow from death rather than creating the biological or legal fact of death.

14. Which combination of findings can establish death when persistent cardiac and respiratory arrest is present?

Loss of consciousness, absent limb reflexes, and assisted breathing with preserved spontaneous respiration
Unconsciousness, a weak pulse, and reduced muscular response with occasional spontaneous breathing
Cardiac arrest confirmed by a monitor, without assessment of consciousness or brain-stem reflexes
Total absence of consciousness and spontaneous movement, absent brain-stem reflexes, and no spontaneous breathing

Total absence of consciousness and spontaneous movement, absent brain-stem reflexes, and no spontaneous breathing

Explanation

The required clinical findings include total absence of consciousness and spontaneous motor activity, abolition of all brain-stem reflexes, and absence of spontaneous breathing. Cardiac arrest by itself does not establish death under this clinical standard.

15. What civil-status action follows the establishment of a person’s death?

The officer cancels the birth certificate and transfers the person’s assets to the surviving spouse
The officer records the death only in a separate register and leaves the birth certificate unchanged
The officer issues a family record book and postpones succession until the marriage is dissolved
The officer prepares a death certificate and records the death on the person’s birth certificate

The officer prepares a death certificate and records the death on the person’s birth certificate

Explanation

The civil-status officer draws up the death certificate and annotates the person’s birth certificate, with consequences including the opening of succession and termination of marriage. The birth certificate is not canceled, and the death is not confined to a separate register.

16. How must human remains and ashes be treated after death?

According to the deceased’s wishes, without any continuing legal protection for the remains
As property managed by relatives, subject mainly to ordinary ownership rules
With respect, dignity, and decency because protection of the human body continues after death
As public objects subject to administrative control rather than personal or family considerations

With respect, dignity, and decency because protection of the human body continues after death

Explanation

Legal protection of the human body continues after death, requiring remains and ashes to be treated with respect, dignity, and decency. This continuing protection means they are not governed simply as ordinary property.

17. What distinguishes absence from disappearance in legal treatment of an uncertain death?

Absence requires a dangerous event and missing body, whereas disappearance concerns a person who merely stops answering messages
Absence presumes death after a short period, whereas disappearance presumes continued life despite dangerous circumstances
Absence and disappearance describe the same situation, but use different procedures for managing property
Absence involves loss of contact without danger presumed, whereas disappearance involves life-threatening circumstances and no recovered body

Absence involves loss of contact without danger presumed, whereas disappearance involves life-threatening circumstances and no recovered body

Explanation

Absence concerns a person who has stopped appearing at home and giving news, while disappearance involves circumstances endangering life and an unrecovered body. Thus absence is associated with presumed continued life, whereas disappearance supports a judicial death determination.

18. What can the guardianship judge do during the presumption-of-absence stage when existing authority is insufficient?

Organize representation and management of the absent person’s property
Declare the person legally dead and open the succession
End the absent person’s marriage and authorize the spouse to remarry
Order a death certificate after treating the absence as a disappearance

Organize representation and management of the absent person’s property

Explanation

During presumed absence, the guardianship judge may arrange representation and property management when no adequate power of attorney or marital authority exists. This stage protects the absent person’s interests and does not treat the person as legally dead.

19. When may absence be judicially declared?

After ten years from a judgment establishing presumed absence, or after twenty years from the last news without such a judgment
After twenty years from a presumed-absence judgment, or after ten years from the last news without one
After ten years from the last news in every case, even when no presumed-absence judgment exists
After five years from the last news in every case, regardless of any earlier judicial decision

After ten years from a judgment establishing presumed absence, or after twenty years from the last news without such a judgment

Explanation

A declaration of absence may occur ten years after the judgment establishing presumed absence, or twenty years after the last news when no such judgment exists. The applicable period therefore depends on whether a presumed-absence judgment was previously issued.

20. When may a French person’s disappearance be judicially declared, and what effect does the judgment have?

When the person has given no news for ten years, regardless of the circumstances or existence of a body
When the person vanished in life-threatening circumstances and the body cannot be found; the judgment has the effects of a death certificate
When relatives request it after an unexplained absence, with the judgment preserving the person’s marriage and succession
When the person’s property requires management, even without evidence that life was endangered

When the person vanished in life-threatening circumstances and the body cannot be found; the judgment has the effects of a death certificate

Explanation

Judicial declaration of disappearance requires a French person to have vanished in circumstances endangering life with no body recovered, and the judgment produces the effects of a death certificate. Mere prolonged silence or property-management concerns do not satisfy this distinct standard.

21. What does filiation establish in family law?

A legal relationship between a child and one or more parents
A family name assigned to a child by the civil-status officer
A procedure for changing a child’s name after birth
A right to use another person’s name during adulthood

A legal relationship between a child and one or more parents

Explanation

Filiation establishes the legal parent-child relationship, while the family name is a separate personal attribute that may result from that relationship. The family name itself does not create the legal relationship of parentage.

22. How is paternal filiation established when the parents are not married?

Through the child’s choice of a family name
Through recognition by the father
Through the mother’s designation on the birth certificate
Through an automatic presumption based on birth

Through recognition by the father

Explanation

Outside marriage, paternal filiation is established through recognition by the father. Identifying the mother on the birth certificate establishes maternal filiation, not paternal filiation.

23. When a child’s filiation is established with both parents, which naming choice may the parents make?

The mother’s name unless a court assigns the father’s name
The father’s name, the mother’s name, or both in their chosen order
A new family name selected independently by the civil-status officer
The father’s name followed by every surname used by either parent

The father’s name, the mother’s name, or both in their chosen order

Explanation

The parents may choose the father’s name, the mother’s name, or both names in the order they select, with a maximum of two family names. The civil-status officer does not freely invent the child’s family name.

24. If both filiations are established simultaneously and the parents make no joint declaration, what name does the child receive?

The two names in alphabetical order
A family name chosen by the civil-status officer
The father’s name
The mother’s name

The father’s name

Explanation

Without a joint declaration, simultaneous establishment of both filiations leads to the father’s name. Alphabetical ordering applies when the parents disagree, not when no joint declaration exists.

25. What distinguishes the decree procedure from the simplified family-name procedure?

The decree procedure requires a legitimate interest, while the simplified procedure does not
The decree procedure changes a given name, while the simplified procedure changes civil status
The decree procedure is handled by a civil-status officer, while the simplified procedure requires a judge
The decree procedure is available to minors, while the simplified procedure is limited to spouses

The decree procedure requires a legitimate interest, while the simplified procedure does not

Explanation

A decree-based change requires the applicant to demonstrate a legitimate interest, whereas the simplified procedure lets a major choose the untransmitted parent’s name without proving such an interest. The procedures therefore differ mainly in their eligibility requirements and decision-making framework.

26. What did the law of 2 March 2022 introduce concerning family-name changes?

A decree procedure requiring every applicant to prove an affective reason
A rule allowing unlimited family-name changes after reaching adulthood
A judicial procedure allowing minors to change their name whenever their parents disagree
A simplified procedure allowing each major one change during their lifetime through the civil-status officer

A simplified procedure allowing each major one change during their lifetime through the civil-status officer

Explanation

The law of 2 March 2022 introduced a simplified procedure through which each major may request one family-name change during their lifetime. It does not create an unlimited right to change one’s name.

27. When may a person challenge another person’s use of their name as usurpation?

When a person uses a family name that was transmitted by a parent
When the use seeks to appropriate the name in civil life and infringes the person’s rights
When a spouse uses the other spouse’s name during marriage
When any artistic work contains a name resembling the person’s name

When the use seeks to appropriate the name in civil life and infringes the person’s rights

Explanation

Usurpation concerns appropriating another person’s name in civil life in a way that creates an infringement, potentially invoking civil liability and privacy rules. Artistic or commercial use is assessed instead through the separate issue of confusion and resulting harm.

28. Which distinction correctly describes a family name and a usage name?

Both names are compulsory, but only the usage name can be transmitted to children
Both names are optional, but only the family name can be used in civil life
The family name is compulsory and transmissible, while the usage name is optional and non-transmissible
The family name is optional and non-transmissible, while the usage name is compulsory and inherited

The family name is compulsory and transmissible, while the usage name is optional and non-transmissible

Explanation

The family name forms a compulsory and transmissible part of civil identity, whereas a usage name is optional and cannot be passed on. Treating the usage name as an inherited civil-status name confuses the two legal categories.

29. What normally happens to a spouse’s use of the other spouse’s family name after divorce?

The use continues whenever the spouses share parental authority over a child
The use automatically continues because marriage permanently transfers the family name
The use normally ends unless the other spouse agrees or a judge authorizes it for a particular interest
The use ends only if a civil-status officer removes it from the birth certificate

The use normally ends unless the other spouse agrees or a judge authorizes it for a particular interest

Explanation

Divorce normally ends the right to use the former spouse’s family name, although the other spouse may agree to continued use or a judge may authorize it for a particular interest. Parental authority by itself does not automatically preserve that right.

30. What is the primary legal function of a given name?

It distinguishes a person within their family
It links a person to a family line
It records the person’s nationality at birth
It identifies the person’s place of residence

It distinguishes a person within their family

Explanation

A given name distinguishes an individual from other members of the same family and is assigned at birth in the birth certificate. A family name, rather than a given name, links the person to a family line.

31. How must a legally valid change to a person’s given name generally be made?

Through a private agreement between family members
Through an amendment to the birth certificate within the legal framework
Through automatic adoption of a spouse’s given name
Through consistent everyday use of a different name

Through an amendment to the birth certificate within the legal framework

Explanation

A given-name change must follow the legal framework and be recorded through an amendment to the birth certificate. Merely using another name in ordinary situations does not alter the civil-status record.

32. Under Article 225-1 of the Civil Code, what may either spouse do regarding the other spouse’s name?

Replace the other spouse’s birth certificate
Require the other spouse to abandon their own name
Automatically transfer the family name to the other spouse
Use the other spouse’s name

Use the other spouse’s name

Explanation

Since the law of 17 May 2013 opened marriage to same-sex couples, either spouse may use the other spouse’s name under Article 225-1. This use is reciprocal, but marriage does not automatically transfer the family name itself.

33. What normally happens to the right to use a spouse’s name after divorce?

It normally ends for both former spouses
It automatically becomes permanent for both former spouses
It transfers to the children of the former spouses
It continues whenever the former spouses share a residence

It normally ends for both former spouses

Explanation

Article 264 provides that divorce normally ends each spouse’s right to use the other spouse’s name. Continued use requires a specific legal basis rather than residence, parenthood, or permanence by default.

34. When may a divorced spouse retain use of the other spouse’s name?

With the other spouse’s agreement or judicial authorization based on a particular interest
When the spouse makes the request before the divorce is pronounced
Whenever the spouse used the name during the marriage
When the spouse has changed the name on personal accounts

With the other spouse’s agreement or judicial authorization based on a particular interest

Explanation

Retention after divorce is possible with the other spouse’s agreement or through judicial authorization when a particular interest of the spouse or children is established. Prior use during marriage or administrative use of the name does not by itself create that right.

35. What may an adult do under Article 311-24-2 regarding the name of a parent who did not transmit a name?

Replace the transmitted family name automatically at adulthood
Use that parent’s name by addition, substitution, or inversion
Add that parent’s name only with the parent’s judicial approval
Use the parent’s name only if the parents were married

Use that parent’s name by addition, substitution, or inversion

Explanation

Article 311-24-2 allows every adult to use the non-transmitted parent’s name by adding, substituting, or inverting the names. The rule does not make replacement automatic and does not depend on the parents’ marital status.

36. Who implements a minor’s use of the other parent’s name?

The family judge in every case involving a minor
The parent whose name was transmitted, regardless of authority
The parents exercising parental authority, or the sole holder of that authority
The minor acting independently after reaching a sufficient level of maturity

The parents exercising parental authority, or the sole holder of that authority

Explanation

For a minor, the name-use possibility is implemented by the parents exercising parental authority or by the parent who exercises it alone. A minor does not generally implement the change personally in the way an adult does.

37. When parental authority is joint, what may the parent who did not transmit their name do?

Prevent the other parent from using the child’s name in legal documents
Replace the child’s transmitted name without informing the other parent
Obtain the change only after a court has approved it in advance
Add their name after informing the other parent in due time, who may refer disagreement to the family judge

Add their name after informing the other parent in due time, who may refer disagreement to the family judge

Explanation

With joint parental authority, the non-transmitting parent may add their name without prior agreement, provided the other parent is informed in due time. The informed parent may challenge the disagreement before the family judge, so advance judicial approval is not required in every case.

38. What is the legal function of a first name within a family?

It distinguishes the individual from other family members
It indicates the individual’s future occupation
It identifies the individual’s family affiliation
It records the individual’s place of birth

It distinguishes the individual from other family members

Explanation

The first name distinguishes a person within the family, while the family name identifies family affiliation. Confusing these functions reverses the roles of the two names.

39. What principle did the law of 8 January 1993 establish regarding a child’s first name?

Parents must choose the name of a historical figure
Parents are free to choose the child’s first name
Parents must select a name from an official calendar
Civil-status officers select the child’s first name

Parents are free to choose the child’s first name

Explanation

The 1993 law established parental freedom to choose a child’s first name. Earlier rules imposed narrower limits, such as selecting calendar names or historical figures.

40. What must happen when a civil-status officer considers a chosen first name contrary to the child’s interest?

The officer asks the parents to choose a family name
The officer notifies the public prosecutor
The officer rejects the birth registration
The officer immediately replaces the chosen name

The officer notifies the public prosecutor

Explanation

The civil-status officer must notify the public prosecutor, who may refer the matter to the family judge. The officer does not directly decide the final removal or replacement of the name.

41. Since the law of 18 November 2016, where is an application to change a first name initially submitted?

To the public prosecutor’s office
To the family judge at the court
To the civil-status officer at the town hall
To the administrative tribunal

To the civil-status officer at the town hall

Explanation

The application is submitted to the civil-status officer at the town hall under the 2016 reform. The family judge becomes involved when litigation arises rather than as the initial recipient.

42. What must an applicant demonstrate to obtain a change of first name?

A disagreement with the family’s naming choice
A legitimate interest in changing the name
A recommendation from a civil-status officer
A preference for a shorter name

A legitimate interest in changing the name

Explanation

A legitimate interest is required for a first-name change. Mere dislike of the existing first name does not by itself satisfy that requirement.

43. What may a civil-status officer do when a requested first-name change lacks legitimate interest or harms a child’s interest or a third party’s rights?

Refer the matter to the public prosecutor
Transfer the application to the administrative tribunal
Order the applicant to adopt a family name
Approve the change subject to parental consent

Refer the matter to the public prosecutor

Explanation

The civil-status officer refers the matter to the public prosecutor when these concerns arise. A refusal by the prosecutor may then be challenged before the family judge.

44. What must the act of birth mention under Article 57 of the Civil Code?

The child’s expected family role
The child’s sex
The child’s future gender identity
The parents’ preferred social status

The child’s sex

Explanation

Article 57 requires the act of birth to mention the child’s sex. This requirement does not itself expressly formulate a general rule using the term “binary.”

45. Which model of sex does French civil law implicitly reflect?

A binary model recognizing male and female categories
A three-category model recognizing male, female, and neutral categories
A self-identification model without fixed legal categories
A biological model excluding references to legal parenthood

A binary model recognizing male and female categories

Explanation

French civil law implicitly follows a binary model, reflected in legal references to men and women, fathers and mothers, and persons of either sex. It does not establish a general third civil-status category.

46. When a child’s sex cannot medically be determined when the birth record is established, what temporary procedure may apply?

The prosecutor may authorize temporary omission, with entry within three months
The family judge must postpone the entire birth registration
The parents may select a sex category until adulthood
The civil-status officer must record a neutral designation indefinitely

The prosecutor may authorize temporary omission, with entry within three months

Explanation

With authorization from the public prosecutor, the sex may be omitted temporarily when medical determination is impossible, but it must be entered within no more than three months after the birth declaration. This procedure does not create a permanent neutral category.

47. What sex designations does French law permit on civil-status records according to the Court of Cassation on 4 May 2017?

A designation chosen by the person concerned
A designation based on medical uncertainty
Male or female designations
Male, female, or neutral designations

Male or female designations

Explanation

French law does not permit a civil-status indication other than male or female, including neutral or intersex designations. The temporary omission procedure for medically indeterminate cases does not authorize a third designation.

48. What did the European Court of Human Rights decide on 25 March 1992 regarding France’s refusal to recognize a change of sex?

It concerned freedom of expression under Article 10 of the Convention
It violated the right to a fair trial under Article 6 of the Convention
It violated the right to private life under Article 8 of the Convention
It complied with the right to private life under Article 8 of the Convention

It violated the right to private life under Article 8 of the Convention

Explanation

The Court held that France’s refusal violated the applicant’s right to private life protected by Article 8. The earlier French case law had upheld such refusals, which is why confusing the two decisions leads to the wrong conclusion.

49. Which conditions did the Court of Cassation accept on 11 December 1992 for a legal change of sex?

A medically established transsexual condition and an appearance approaching the other sex after medical and surgical treatment
A psychiatric diagnosis and proof that the applicant had used a new first name for several years
A medical opinion and proof that the applicant had undergone sterilization before applying
A personal declaration of gender identity and a supporting statement from a close relative

A medically established transsexual condition and an appearance approaching the other sex after medical and surgical treatment

Explanation

The plenary assembly accepted legal change of sex when a medically established transsexual condition was accompanied by a physical appearance approaching the other sex after medical and surgical treatment. A personal declaration, long-term name use, or sterilization alone did not state the conditions of this 1992 ruling.

50. What was the principal effect of the law of 18 November 2016 on legal changes of sex?

It required surgical treatment while allowing administrative authorities to decide applications
It codified the procedure and relaxed and demedicalized the substantive conditions while retaining judicial involvement
It abolished the procedure and transferred decisions to medical authorities without court review
It preserved the earlier medical conditions and removed the possibility of changing first names

It codified the procedure and relaxed and demedicalized the substantive conditions while retaining judicial involvement

Explanation

The 2016 law codified the procedure, relaxed and demedicalized its substantive requirements, and kept the courts involved. It therefore did not abolish judicial review or preserve the earlier strictly medical conditions.

51. Under Article 61-5 of the Civil Code, what must an adult or emancipated minor demonstrate to obtain a change of the sex entry?

A declaration from relatives confirming that the applicant has used a different gender identity
A surgical report confirming that the applicant’s physical characteristics have been altered
A medical certificate proving that hormone treatment has continued for a prescribed period
A sufficient body of facts showing that the recorded sex differs from the sex in which the person presents and is known

A sufficient body of facts showing that the recorded sex differs from the sex in which the person presents and is known

Explanation

Article 61-5 requires sufficient factual evidence that the recorded sex does not correspond to the sex in which the applicant presents and is known. Medical treatment, surgery, and family statements are not the statutory evidentiary requirement described here.

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