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Firm news / INTERNATIONAL REAL PROPERTY DISPUTES IN FRANCE
Many individual investors having acquired properties in France under leaseback programs are now facing difficulties to pay the monthly instalments of their French mortgage.
These investors had purchased a property in France, usually in a “Resid...
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Many who have purchased a property in France are concerned about the future of their property after their death.
Indeed, inheritance rules differ substantially from country to country.
Each situation is different and would have to be analyse...
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The practice is frequently questioned by real property owners in France facing difficulties to repay a mortgage signed with a French bank.
Under French law you cannot just “give the keys back to the Bank”.
Any transfer of property implies a deed...
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Firm news / INTERNATIONAL FAMILY LAW IN FRANCE
Unlike many common law countries, property purchased after marriage with funds belonging exclusively to one spouse will remain the separate property of this spouse. Typically, the spouse acquired such funds prior to marriage or after the marriage...
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All domestic litigation depends on the jurisdiction of the “Juge aux affaires familiales”. In each French “Département” (French administrative division equivalent to a British county), there are generally one or two Court, grouping several “Juges”...
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The average duration of a divorce is about 12 months.
Duration will strongly vary depending on : the location of the Court (outcome tends to be more rapid in small rural courts) ; if it is a mutual consent divorce or a more disputed type of divor...
