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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 Employee’s Job Must Disappear and You Live Abroad: Economic Dismissal, CSP Offer and Labour Court Defence

Foreign founder guide: run an individual economic dismissal in France from abroad, offer the CSP professional security contract, document reclassification, and price the twelve-month labour …

News

You Won in London, They Live in France After Brexit: Enforcing Your English Money Judgment, Hague 2019 and How to Seize French Assets

Your English money judgment has no force in France until a French court grants exequatur. This guide explains the post-Brexit routes, the Hague 2019 shortcut since July 2025 and how to freez …

Contracts and business

The Greffe Says Your French Company’s Beneficial Owners Filing Is Missing: Injunction, Daily Penalties and How a Foreign Founder Fixes It From Abroad

Your French company's beneficial owners declaration is missing or wrong: who counts above 25 percent, the court injunction under daily penalties, strike-off and the 200,000 euro fine, and ho …

News

British in France After Brexit: How to Become a French Citizen by Decree, Keep Your British Passport, and Challenge a Refusal

British resident in France after Brexit? Five-year rule, language test, dual nationality and how to challenge a refusal before the Nantes court — explained from the Civil Code and recent cas …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Faces a Tax Audit While You Live Abroad: Audit Notice, Verification, Reassessment and How to Challenge

Tax audit of your French company while you live abroad: audit notice, charter rights, on-site verification limits, reasoned reassessment proposal, 30-day reply, departmental reviewer, tax co …

Property

Signed a Compromis in France and Want Out? 10-Day Withdrawal, Loan Exit and Costs for Foreign Buyers

You signed a compromis de vente in France and want to withdraw: how the 10-day retraction runs, how the compulsory loan condition refunds you, and what an immobilisation payment, penalty cla …

News

Living in France After Brexit and Bringing Your Spouse and Children Over: Family Reunification, Visas and How to Challenge a Refusal

British resident in France since Brexit? How to bring your spouse and children through family reunification — income, housing, OFII procedure — and how to challenge a refusal or removal orde …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Got a CFE Bill With No Office? Minimum Charge, First-Year Relief and How to Challenge From Abroad

Foreign founder with a French company but no premises? Why the CFE minimum charge applies, how the first-year exemption and turnover thresholds work, and how to pay and challenge the bill fr …

Tax and estate

Your UK ISA, Premium Bonds and Savings Interest When You Live in France After Brexit: What France Taxes, How to Declare It, and How to Challenge the Bill

Your ISA is exempt in London but taxable in Paris. French residence, the invisible wrapper, Premium Bond prizes, form 3916, the 12.8 percent flat rate and the treaty credit, with the exact s …

Contracts and business

Locked Out of Your Own 50/50 French Company While Living Abroad: Force the Buyout or the Breakup

Your 50/50 partner blocks every decision in your French SAS or SARL and you live abroad. Provisional administrator, forced buyout price, court dissolution: statutes, cases and procedure.

Co-ownership and neighbours

French Boundary Marking (Bornage): A Foreign Owner’s Guide to Surveyors, Neighbours and Courts

Where exactly does your French land end? This guide explains boundary marking (bornage) for foreign owners: the surveyor procedure, costs, court action, encroachment demolition and party wal …

News

British State Pension in France After Brexit: Getting It Paid, Keeping the Annual Rise, Topping It Up, and Challenging the French Tax Bill

British State Pension in France after Brexit: payment, yearly increase, voluntary top-ups from France, French tax, CSG exemption and how to challenge the bill.

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