The majority wants to simplify the change of last name through a bill, Sunday announced seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, in an interview with the magazine “She”.
Le Monde with AFP
“The law will allow the child to bear, for use, the name of the mother, either by not having his name or the name of the mother to that of the father or we will modify The order of surnames “, announces the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, In an interview with the magazine it Sunday, December 19 . The majority intends to simplify the change of last name.
“It will take the validation of both parents and, in the absence of this agreement, there will be a use of the judge. Moreover, if the minor is more than 13 years old, it will also be necessary to ask him for his agreement,” says -T he.
[p> “For the middlemen, […] spent 18 years, we will give freedom to each Frenchman to be able to choose his last name to keep his mother only, that of his father, or both, in the sense. that we wish, “he announces too. “It is now sufficient of a Cerfa statement to the civil status of your town hall”, which according to Eric Dupond-Moretti will replace “a long and humiliating procedure”.
“A law of freedom for each Frenchman “
“It will be a law of equality between the parents, a law of freedom for each French. It will be brought by the deputy [of the Herault] Patrick Vignal, the members of the majority and is supported by a collective, “Wear my name” “, explains the keeper of the seals.
For him, a surname “is an identity, intimacy, a story, a memory and, for a very large majority of us, we are happy and proud to bear this name. But, there is People for whom it’s more complicated, it can be a problem “.
The minister takes as an example “the mother who serves his child alone”, the surnames who “go out”, “the child who bears the name” of his “generator who has forgotten his homework”.
but also more concrete problems, such as “the mother (who) lifts his child alone who bears the name of his father” and who “wants to register it in the canteen or judo”, where “he is asked. ‘This is his son or daughter “, which is” humiliating “.
At the end of November, the Parliament adopted a symbolic bill proposal to allow a family name to the children born without life.