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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 Is Stuck Without a Kbis While You Live Abroad: Fix the Rejected Guichet Unique Filing, Get Registered and Prove You Exist

No Kbis, filing rejected, bank and hiring blocked? How foreign founders fix the Guichet unique file, get registered and secure pre-registration acts.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Director Just Quit While You Live Abroad: Remove, Replace and Register the New Director From Abroad

Your SARL gerant or SAS president resigned while you live abroad. Majorities to appoint the successor, one-month legal notice, Guichet unique filing, BODACC and fresh Kbis.

Tax and estate

British Private Pension in France After Brexit: How Your SIPP Is Taxed, When a QROPS Transfer Helps, and How to Challenge the Bill

French-resident Britons pay French tax on SIPP drawings under Articles 79 and 158, with Treaty Article 18 reserving taxation to France; lump-sum options, QROPS charges and challenge routes e …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Uses Freelancers While You Live Abroad: Reclassification, URSSAF Back-Charges and Safe Contracting

Your French company pays providers on invoice while you live abroad. French courts can reclassify them as employees and the URSSAF can reassess years of contributions. Here is the test, the …

Tax and estate

British Owner, French House Over EUR 1.3m After Brexit: IFI Wealth Tax, Declaration and How to Challenge the Bill

British owner with French property over EUR 1.3m? How IFI hits residents and non-residents, SCI shares, the 30 percent relief, declaration and challenges.

News

British Landlord in France After Brexit: How to Recover Unpaid Rent, End the Lease Lawfully and Enforce an Eviction Order

British owner letting a French home? Recover arrears through the six-week demand, serve a valid six-month notice, and enforce eviction around the winter truce.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Is Missing Its UBO (RBE) Declaration and You Live Abroad: Who Must Be Declared, How the Greffe Forces Filing, and How to Fix It From Abroad

French company, life abroad, missing UBO filing: who must be declared on the RBE, the 30-day rule, greffe injunction and daily penalty, and how to regularise from abroad.

Property

Squatters in Your French Second Home: 48-Hour Removal and Full Eviction Guide for Absent Foreign Owners

Squatters occupy your French second home while you live abroad: the 48-hour prefectural removal route, the emergency court eviction, criminal penalties and the occupation payments you can re …

News

Divorced in England, Pension in France After Brexit: Why Your English Pension Sharing Order Does Not Automatically Divide a French Pension, What to Claim Instead, and How to Enforce It

Your English pension sharing order cannot split a French pay-as-you-go pension. How the French compensatory payment replaces it, and the enforcement route that actually works.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Subsidiary Needs Cash From Abroad: Shareholder Loans, Current Accounts, Interest Limits and Getting the Money Back

Your French subsidiary needs cash from abroad. This guide explains how a foreign parent lends through a shareholder current account, the banking-monopoly exemption, the ban on loans to direc …

Company law

Your French Bank Refused to Open Your Company Account While You Live Abroad: Deposit Capital, Get the Kbis and Enforce Your Right to an Account

WITHDRAWN TO DRAFT 2026-10-07: quasi-duplicate of 2026-10-04 bank-refusal piece; kept as draft, not for publication.

News

British Settled in France After Brexit: Bringing Your Spouse and Children Through Regroupement Familial, and Challenging a Refusal or OQTF

British resident in France after Brexit? How regroupement familial and the vie privee et familiale card bring your spouse and children over, what proofs the prefect demands, and how to chall …

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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