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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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My French Tenant Has Stopped Paying Rent After Brexit: What a British Landlord Must Serve, How Eviction Works and How to Challenge Delay
Your French tenant has stopped paying rent. A British landlord's guide to the six-week payment order, court eviction, winter truce and recovering arrears.
Contracts and business
Hiring Your First Employee in France From Abroad: DPAE, Contract, Trial Period and True Cost Before Day One
Foreign founder hiring a first employee in France? DPAE filing window, day-one pack, CDI vs CDD, trial-period durations and renewal traps, and the true cost before signing.
My British Husband or Wife Has Just Died in Our French House After Brexit: Can I Stay, What the One-Year Free Right and the Lifelong Right Are Worth, and How to Challenge Eviction or a Tax Bill
British surviving spouse in France: the free first year in the home, the lifelong habitation right to claim within one year, ownership choices, spousal tax exemption and how to challenge evi …
Your French Company Just Got a Tax Audit Notice: Verification, Reassessment and How a Foreign Owner Contests From Abroad
French tax audit of a foreign-owned company: audit notice, on-site verification, rectification proposal, interest and penalties, and how to contest each step from abroad.
British Early Retiree in France After Brexit: Join PUMA, Check Your CSM Bill and Challenge a CPAM Refusal
Inactive British early retiree in France? How PUMA affiliation works after Brexit, when an S1 applies, how the CSM bill is computed and how to challenge a CPAM refusal or URSSAF assessment w …
Contracts and business
Firing an Employee in France as a Foreign Employer: Dismissal Procedure, Severance Cost and How to Survive a Labour Court Challenge From Abroad
Foreign owner of a French company parting with an employee? Preliminary meeting, dismissal letter, severance calculation, notice pay and prudhommes defence — the full procedure explained fro …
Banking, insurance and consumers
British Resident in France With a French Assurance-Vie After Brexit: Name Your Beneficiaries, Use the €152,500 Allowance and Challenge a Refusal or a Tax Bill
British resident in France after Brexit? How your assurance-vie names beneficiaries, how the €152,500 allowance and 20% levy work, and how to challenge an insurer delay or a tax bill.
Your UK Public-Sector Pension Is on Your French Tax Bill After Brexit? Why a Government-Service Pension Is Taxable Only in Britain — and How to Challenge the French Charge
British public-sector pension taxed in France after Brexit? Article 19 of the France-UK treaty reserves government-service pensions to UK tax. Declare it right, claim the credit, challenge t …
Your French Company Never Declared Its Beneficial Owner: Court Order, 200000-Euro Fine and How a Foreign Owner Fixes It From Abroad
Foreign owner of a French SAS or SARL with no beneficial-owner filing? Injunction, daily fines and a 200000-euro penalty: what French law says and how to regularise from abroad.
Insolvency
Your French SASU Has One Corporate Shareholder and You Want Out: Closing by Universal Transfer (TUP) Without Liquidation
Foreign parent owning 100 percent of a French SASU or EURL can close it by universal asset transfer (TUP) with no liquidator: 30-day creditor opposition, BODACC publication, final corporate …
Sold Your French House After Brexit and Paid 17.2% Social Charges? How British Sellers Keep the CSG/CRDS Exemption and Reclaim the Excess
British seller hit with 17.2 percent French social charges on your house sale? Why you likely owe only 7.5 percent, the affiliation test from the Dreyer cases, and how to reclaim the excess …
You Have Just Sold Your French Second Home After Brexit: How a British Seller Declares the Plus-Value, Claims UK Relief and Challenges an Unfair Bill
Withdrawn same-day duplicate of the 12 September plus-value article; replaced by a distinct social-charges reclaim angle.
Maître Reda Kohen
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