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Required Entries

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  1. Which event must be entered in the civil register under Article 408?
  2. Which pair is expressly included in Article 408?
  3. Under Article 410, what evidentiary character do civil-register books and related documents have?
  4. A final judgment declares a marriage void from the beginning. A party says it cannot be registered because Article 408 …
  5. An interested party produces a civil-register entry to prove a recorded fact. The opponent offers competent contrary pr…
  6. After a legal-separation decree, a clerk discovers that it was never registered. The spouses privately agree to keep th…
  7. A registrar intentionally changes a birth entry without lawful authority, causing a claimant proven damage. In the resu…
  8. Identify five kinds of entries required by Article 408 and explain the general subject of the civil register.
  9. A litigant calls a civil-register entry conclusive proof that can never be rebutted. Explain the error.
  10. Explain the clerk’s registration duty for an unregistered legal-separation decree and distinguish it from the registrar…
  11. Does Article 408 separately require recording loss and recovery of citizenship?
  12. Is a judicial determination of filiation among Article 408’s required entries?