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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 Pays Dividends to You Personally While You Live Abroad: 12.8% Levy, Treaty Relief and Getting the Excess Back

Non-resident individual shareholder of a French company? 12.8% withholding, treaty caps, forms 5000/5001 and refund from abroad explained.

News

British State Pensioner Living in France After Brexit: Your S1 Healthcare Certificate, PUMA Cover, and How to Challenge a CPAM Refusal or the Wrong Bill

British State Pension holders living in France keep healthcare through the S1 certificate or PUMA: how to register with the CPAM, what you pay, and how to challenge a refusal or a wrongful l …

Property

France Loi Carrez Surface Shortfall: Claiming a Price Reduction Within the One-Year Deadline

Your Paris flat measures less than the deed states. French Carrez law grants a proportional price cut if the shortfall exceeds 5 percent, but only within one year.

News

Selling Your French Holiday Home From Britain After Brexit: Energy Rating, Survey Pack and Hidden-Defect Claims — and How to Defend Them

Selling your French second home from the UK? The survey pack, the energy rating now held against sellers, and hidden-defect claims after completion — with the court decisions that decide the …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Declare Its Beneficial Owners While You Live Abroad: Identify Them, File the RBE and Avoid Strike-Off and Criminal Fines

Your French company must declare the living individuals who own or control it, update the RBE register within thirty days of any change, and face injunction, strike-off and criminal fines if …

Company law

Your French Bank Said No While You Live Abroad: Deposit the Capital, Enforce the Right to an Account and Unlock Your Kbis

WITHDRAWN BY THE AUTHOR: this page duplicated a September 2026 article on the same bank-refusal procedure and has been retired to avoid Reader confusion.

News

Your UK Driving Licence in France After Brexit: Which British Licences France Still Recognises, How to Exchange on ANTS, and How to Challenge a Refusal

British licence in France after Brexit: pre-2021 recognition, the one-year exchange window, the ANTS file that succeeds, and how to challenge a refusal or delay.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Switch to E-Invoicing While You Live Abroad: Receive From September 2026, Issue on Time and Report Every Flow

From 1 September 2026 your French company must receive e-invoices through a compliant platform, issue them in structured format on a staggered calendar, and report B2C and cross-border data. …

Planning and construction

Cracks, Leaks and Serious Defects After Buying Property in France: How Foreign Owners Claim Under the Ten-Year Builder Warranty

Cracks or water ingress after buying in France? How foreign owners prove decennial defects, notify insurers and sue before the ten-year time bar.

News

Living in France and Working Remotely for a UK Employer After Brexit: Tax Residency, Social Security, Payroll and How to Challenge a Reassessment

British resident in France, still on a London payroll? Where Article 15 of the France-UK treaty taxes your salary, why French social security applies to work done in France, what your UK emp …

Contracts and business

Your Guichet Unique Filing Was Rejected While You Live Abroad: Fix the Rejection, File Again and Get Your Kbis Without Flying to France

Guichet unique rejected your French company filing from abroad? Fix each defect, refile, protect pre-registration acts, then handle RBE, bank, VAT and invoices.

News

Your British Child Got Into a French University After Brexit: Student Visa, Residence Permit, Healthcare, Housing and Part-Time Work — and How to Challenge a Refusal

British student admitted in France after Brexit: visa before departure, residence permit, health cover, housing aid, work rights and how to challenge a refusal.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

Partner, member of the Paris Bar, 11 rue Margueritte, 75017 Paris. Author of the analyses published in this journal. About