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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 Client Never Paid and You Live Abroad: Recover the Invoice, Add Late Penalties and Force Payment

Unpaid French invoice and you live abroad? Formal demand, court payment order, opposition tactics and forced collection, with penalties and 40 euro fee.

Contracts and business

You Live Abroad and Want to Sell Your Shares in Your French Company: Approval, Price, Registration and Tax Without Flying to Paris

A buyer is ready for your French SAS or SARL shares while you live abroad. This guide walks foreign sellers through the only safe exit order: clear the approval lock, fix a price that resist …

Company law

Living in Britain and Selling Your French Second Home After Brexit: Capital Gains Tax, Social Charges and How to Challenge the Bill

UK resident selling a French holiday home? France taxes the gain first at 19% plus 17.2%, demands an accredited representative, and bars you from the 150,000-euro relief. How the notaire clo …

Insolvency

You Live Abroad and Want to Close Your French Company: Dissolution, Liquidation, Tax and Striking Off Without Flying to Paris

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News

British Second Home in France Let on Airbnb After Brexit: Registration, Change-of-Use Permission, Tax and How to Challenge the Bill

British owner letting a French second home on Airbnb? Registration number, change-of-use permission, micro-BIC versus actual-profit tax, treaty credit and how to challenge fines and reassess …

Contracts and business

Your French Partner Filed Your Brand at the INPI While You Live Abroad: Opposition, Recovery and Damages

Your French partner filed your brand at the INPI in his own name? Opposition within two months, ownership claim, nullity for fraud and damages — the full recovery method from abroad.

Property

Buying Property En Viager in France: A Foreign Buyer’s Legal Guide to the Deposit, the Lifetime Annuity and the Traps

How viager sales work for foreign buyers: bouquet, lifetime annuity, occupancy rights, termination clauses, and how French courts decide payment and price disputes.

News

Caught Driving on a UK Licence After Your First Year in France After Brexit: the Fine, the Insurance Trap, and How to Challenge It

Stopped on a UK licence after your first year in France? Offence, 800 euro fixed fine, insurance risk and how to challenge and regularise after Brexit.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Made a Profit While You Live Abroad: Taking Dividends, Salary and Fees Home Without a Tax Reassessment

Dividends, salary or management fees: how foreign owners take profits out of a French company, cut withholding with treaties and challenge reassessments from abroad.

Tax and estate

Gifting Your French House to Your Children After Brexit: the Notarised Deed, the €100,000 Allowance, the 15-Year Clock — and How to Challenge the Bill

British owner giving a French house to children: notarised donation or donation-partage, the 100,000 euro allowance per parent per child, the 15-year stacking clock, bare-ownership savings …

Contracts and business

You Lent Money to Your French Company and Live Abroad: Getting Your Shareholder Loan Back When Repayment Is Blocked

Foreign shareholder of a French SAS or SASL whose current account repayment is refused: when the loan is repayable on demand, how lock-ups and bank pledges work, and how to force repayment f …

Tax and estate

British Second Home in France After Brexit: the Taxe d’Habitation Surcharge Bill, Who Really Pays, and How to Challenge It

British owner of a French second home? Understand the taxe d'habitation uplift of up to 60 per cent, the reliefs that exist and how to challenge an excessive 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