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French law in practice

Practical guides to French property and business law for readers dealing with French notaries, landlords, companies or courts from abroad, and analysis of current legal news.

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Contracts and business

Your French Company Voted Dividends and You Live Abroad: Withholding Tax, Treaty Relief and How to Bring the Money Home

Your French company voted dividends but you live abroad: who votes, when the money must arrive, which French withholding applies, how your tax treaty cuts it and how to recover overpaid tax …

Property

Your Notaire Got It Wrong: Suing After a Flawed French Property Purchase

Foreign buyer's guide to suing a French notaire: duty to warn, verifications, loss of chance, five-year time limit and recoverable costs under recent Cour de cassation rulings.

News

My British Spouse Died Owning Our French House After Brexit: Your Rights as Surviving Husband or Wife — Usufruit, the Right to Stay, Tax and How to Challenge

British widow or widower keeping the French house after Brexit: your share, the lifelong right to stay, spouse tax exemption and how to challenge.

Contracts and business

French Bank Calls In Your Personal Guarantee and You Live Abroad: How a Foreign Director Challenges the Caution, Cuts the Bill and Gets Time to Pay

Your French company's bank demands payment under the personal guarantee you signed as a foreign director. This guide explains how to challenge the caution, cut disproportionate amounts and i …

News
News

British Resident in France With Your UK Car After Brexit: Customs, Carte Grise in One Month, Homologation, Insurance and How to Challenge a Refusal or Fine

Brought your UK car to live in France after Brexit? Customs, VAT, one-month carte grise, homologation, insurance and how to challenge refusals and fines.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Received a Tax Audit Notice and You Live Abroad: verification de comptabilite, URSSAF Control and How to Challenge the Bill

Tax audit (verification de comptabilite) and URSSAF control against your French company while you live abroad: notices, adversarial procedure, penalties, CRA, courts and deadlines to challen …

News

British Moving to France After Brexit: Which Long-Stay Visa, How OFII Validation Works and How to Challenge a Refusal

British citizen moving to France after Brexit? Compare visiteur, salarie and talent visas, validate your VLS-TS with the OFII, secure your carte de sejour and challenge any refusal within th …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Has No Declared Beneficial Owner and You Live Abroad: How to File the RBE, Fix a Rejection and Challenge Fines

Foreign owner of a French SAS or SARL? Who counts as a beneficial owner, how to file the RBE from abroad, and how to challenge injunctions and fines.

Property

Signed a Compromis in France? The 10-Day Withdrawal, the Loan Clock and Getting Your Deposit Back

Foreign buyer's guide to the French 10-day withdrawal right, the mortgage reflection period and deposit refund, with 2022 and 2024 Cour de cassation rulings.

News

British Tenant Renting a Flat in France After Brexit: Deposit Recovery, One-Month Notice and How to Challenge Deductions

British tenant in France? Deposit capped at one month, refund in one to two months with 10% monthly uplift, one-month notice in tense zones: rights, inventories and how to challenge deductio …

Company law

Your French Director Quit or Must Go While You Live Abroad: Replace a SAS President or SARL Gerant, File and Cut Liability

Foreign owner guide: remove and replace a SAS president or SARL gerant from abroad, file on the single window within one month, secure a clean Kbis and close bank, tax and URSSAF liability.

Banking, insurance and consumers
Banking, insurance and consumers

British in France After Brexit: Your Assurance-Vie (French Life Insurance) — Beneficiary Clause, Tax After Eight Years and How to Challenge the Bill

British in France? How your assurance-vie beneficiary clause, the 152,500-euro allowance, the over-70 rule and the eight-year clock really work — and how to challenge.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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