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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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Property

VEFA Late Delivery in France: Penalties, Termination and Guarantees for Foreign Buyers

Developer late delivering your French off-plan home? How foreign buyers claim VEFA delay penalties, terminate for serious breach, and call on completion or refund guarantees.

News

Remarried in England, House in France: Protecting Your Second Spouse Without Disinheriting the Children of Your First Marriage

British, remarried, owning a house in France with children from a first marriage: what your second spouse inherits by law, how a gift between spouses extends it, and where the children's res …

Contracts and business

Your First French Employee Has to Go and You Live Abroad: Dismissal, Negotiated Exit and Labour Court Defence

Dismiss or settle your first French hire from abroad: lawful grounds, severance maths, negotiated exit approval and labour court defence.

News

Your Mother Wired You Money From London After Brexit: Declaring the Cash Gift on Form 2735, Paying French Duty, and Challenging the Bill

British parent sent you money from the UK? France taxes the gift on revelation: form 2735 within one month, allowances, 15-year recall, and how to challenge reassessment.

Contracts and business

Hiring Your First Employee in France While You Live Abroad: DPAE, Contract, Pay Slips and Labour Court Proof

Hiring your first employee in France from abroad: file the DPAE before day one, write a trial clause that holds, and build the pay file that wins labour court cases.

Contracts and business

Your French Employee Is Declared Unfit for Work While You Live Abroad: Reclassification, Dismissal and the One-Month Pay Trap

Your French employee has been declared medically unfit (inapte) and you live abroad. This guide explains the reclassification search, the one-month salary trap, dismissal procedure and sever …

Tax and estate

British Family With a French House After Brexit: Should You Put It in an SCI, What It Costs in Tax, and How to Challenge a Refusal or a Reassessment

British family with a French house after Brexit: setting up and running an SCI, yearly tax, gifting and inheriting shares, and challenging refusals and bills.

Co-ownership and neighbours
Co-ownership and neighbours

French Co-ownership AGM Minutes Just Landed: How Foreign Owners Challenge an Abusive Resolution Within Two Months

Your building voted works or charges you never agreed to. As a dissenting or absent foreign owner you have two months from notification of the minutes to sue, and since April 2026 the clock …

News

My Spouse Filed for Divorce in England and I Live in France After Brexit: Which Court Decides, Which Law Applies, and How to Enforce or Challenge the Orders

Since Brexit, a London filing no longer blocks a French divorce and an English decree needs exequatur to bite in France. Which court is competent, which law applies to children and money, an …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Switch to Electronic Invoices From Abroad: Platforms, Deadlines, Penalties and How to Get Paid

From 1 September 2026 every company in France must receive electronic invoices. A practical English guide for directors living abroad: platforms, new invoice mentions, fines and collecting u …

News

Claimed as Tax Resident in Both France and the UK After Brexit: the Tie-Breaker That Decides, and How to Challenge Double Tax

HMRC and the French tax office both claim you? How the France-UK treaty tie-breaker decides your residence and how to challenge double tax.

Company law

You Run Your French SAS or SARL From Abroad: Which Social Regime, What URSSAF Bill and How to Fight Double Charges

Foreign founder named president or manager of a French company? How France classifies your social regime, what URSSAF can bill you from abroad, and how the A1 procedure and court challenges …

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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