The majority want to simplify the change of surname via a bill, announced this Sunday the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti in an interview with the magazine She. “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 said. . “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 wish, “he also announces.
Replace “a long and humiliating procedure”
“It will now suffice for a Cerfa declaration to the civil status of your town hall”, which according to Eric Dupond-Moretti will replace “a long and humiliating procedure”. “It will be a law of equality between parents, a law of freedom for each French person. It will be carried by the deputy (of Hérault) Patrick Vignal, the deputies of the majority and is supported by a collective, ‘Porte Mon Name ‘”, explains the Keeper of the Seals.
For him, a surname “is an identity, an intimacy, a story, a memory and for a very large majority of us, we are happy and proud to bear this name. But there are people for whom it is more complicated, it can be a problem “. The minister takes as an example “the mother who brings up her child alone”, the family names which “die out”, “the child who bears the name” of his “father who has forgotten his homework”.
But also more concrete problems, such as “the mother (who) brings up her child alone who bears the name of her father” and who “wants to register him in the canteen or in judo”, where “we ask him if he is. ‘His son or daughter is doing well “, which is” humiliating “. 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.