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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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Your French Client Does Not Pay You and You Live Abroad: Late Penalties, Injonction de Payer, European Order and Forced Recovery
Your French client ignores your invoices while you live abroad. French law adds automatic ECB-plus-ten penalties and a 40-euro indemnity, then converts the invoice into an enforceable order …
Squatters in Your French Second Home: How Absent Foreign Owners Recover Possession After the 18 August 2026 Law
Your Paris flat is occupied by strangers and the lock is changed. Since 18 August 2026, second-home owners get the fast prefectural eviction: complaint, proof of ownership, 48-hour decision …
Your French Second Home After Brexit: The Annual Property Tax Bill (Taxe Fonciere, Taxe dHabitation, Surtax and IFI) and How to Challenge It
British owner of a French holiday home? What you pay each year in taxe fonciere, taxe dhabitation sur les residences secondaires, surcharge and IFI wealth tax, and how to challenge a wrong b …
Company law
Your French Bank Says No From Abroad? How to Open a Corporate Bank Account in France as a Foreign Founder
Foreign founder blocked at the bank? Capital deposit, blocked-funds certificate, Kbis release and how to challenge a refusal through Banque de France designation, from abroad.
Arrested in France After Brexit: A British National’s Rights in Police Custody (Garde a Vue), and How to Challenge the Custody and What Follows
Arrested in France as a British national? How long police custody lasts, your rights to a lawyer, interpreter and consular help, and how to challenge the custody, from release to appeal.
Your Business Needs a French VAT Number While You Live Abroad: When Registration Is Required, How to Register, File and Challenge Assessments
Foreign founder or foreign company facing French VAT: when a French VAT number is required, how to register via the SIEE from abroad, how to invoice, reverse-charge and file CA3 returns, and …
Asbestos or Lead Found After Buying in France: Cancel the Sale, Cut the Price or Make the Seller Pay (2026 Guide for Foreign Buyers)
Asbestos or lead discovered after buying a French home? A foreign-buyer's guide to the hidden-defects warranty, defeating the exemption clause, the diagnostic file and suing the surveyor for …
Company law
You Live Abroad and Your French SAS or SARL Needs Fresh Capital: Inject Cash, Defend Your Stake, Register the Increase and Challenge an Unfair Dilution
Your French company needs fresh equity while you live abroad. This guide explains how to vote and pay a cash capital increase from another country, keep your preferential subscription right …
Your Mum Lost Capacity in France After Brexit: Why the French Bank Freezes the Account on a UK Lasting Power of Attorney, and How to Put an Enforceable French Protection in Place
British Lasting Power of Attorney refused by a French bank or notaire: why the LPA stalls, how to activate a mandat de protection future, and how habilitation familiale, sauvegarde, curatell …
Getting Married in France After Brexit: Which Papers a British Partner Files at the Mairie, and How to Challenge a Refusal or an Opposition
British and marrying in France? The mairie file, the self-declaration replacing the certificat de coutume, the interview, and how to challenge a refusal.
Your French SAS Pays You Dividends While You Live Abroad: 25% Withholding, Treaty Relief, EU Exemption and How to Reclaim
Your French SAS votes a dividend and France withholds 25% before it reaches you abroad. Treaty rates, the EU parent-subsidiary exemption and the refund procedure that recovers the excess.
Your Cotswolds Holiday Cottage After the 2025 Furnished Holiday Let Abolition: What Your British FHL Loses, How France Taxes It as a Meuble, and How to Challenge the Double Bill
French-resident owner of a British holiday cottage after the April 2025 FHL abolition: new UK property-business rules, French micro-BIC or reel declaration, treaty credit and challenges.
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