French Inheritance Wills
and French Inheritance law 

Another aspect of buying property in France are the different French inheritance wills and French inheritance law. Unlike in the UK your partner will not automatically inherit your un-willed assets.

You cannot even assume that you can make French inheritance wills under which your partner will inherit everything. French inheritance law is not that easy.

GET ADVICE on French inheritance wills and French inheritance law from your Avocat! It is in fact just a way of ensuring that your French inheritance wills do not disinherit your children.

Worthy French inheritance law - but rather a complicating one, especially for anyone with children from more than one relationship.

Divorce and children from previous marriages make a complicated situation positively freudian.

There are almost always ways to arrange French inheritance wills and inheritance law to your satisfaction-

BUT ONLY ARRANGED BEFORE YOU SIGN THE FINAL CONTRACT OF COMPLETION!
 
In France, for example, French inheritance wills and inheritance law means that your partner could be forced to sell up and move out if one of your children (by your present or any previous marriages) wants the property sold when you die.

This can be avoided by buying 'en indivision' or 'en tontine'.

The children will still co-own with the surviving spouse- but they cannot sell up and throw them out.

Setting up a French property company'- an SCI in France- to own your property
is the only way to remove your property from these French inheritance wills and inheritance law.
Setting up a French property company involves costs of its own, and will also affect the taxes to be paid if you sell or when you die.

YOU DO NEED PROFESSIONAL ADVICE HOWEVER LIMITED YOUR BUDGET!

TO INFORMATION ABOUT THE LEGAL PROCESS