The family law: the set of legal rules governing marriages, common-law (married life), PACS, various forms of unions (separation, annulment, divorce), paternity, parental authority, guardianship.

The concept of family is not yet defined by the French Civil Code. Under French law, it is a collection of individuals united by ties of kinship or affinity.

Here are the topics concerning family law:

• The Adoption
• Change of name
• Same sex couple,
• Visitation,
• Divorce
• Grandparents visiting rights,
• Emancipation Minor
• Taxes,
• Wedding and Marriage Contract,
• Concubinage,
• Division of property,
• Paternity
• Alimony,
• Separation
• Estate, inheritance, legacy
• Trusteeship
• Conjugal violence,
• PACS