Ihe insurance code (article L 132-7) states that “Insurance in the event of death must cover the risk of suicide from the second year of the contract”. If the insured commits suicide during the tenth year, the insurer must therefore pay? Alas, no: it all depends on the category of […]

Question to an expert I turned 70, is it still advantageous at this age to pay money on life insurance and should it be done on a new contract? Payments made on life insurance before age 70 make it possible to transmit one’s assets with a favorable tax regime. On […]

Nicole Prieur is a philosopher and family therapist, specialist in the question of money in couples and families. She published Family, money, lovewith Bernard Prieur (Albin Michel, 2016). Do women and men have the same relationship to money? Absolutely not. The relationship to money is excessively gendered. In the traditional […]

CHARLINE COLLETTE Money, male name (Latin: argentum). The definition in the Larousse dictionary couldn’t be truer: money remains a highly gendered subject. According to a study by the British online bank Starling Bank, 90% of articles talking about money to women explain how to save money and bargains during the […]

Fair a ‘ manual donation” consists of handing over certain goods: jewellery, paintings, furniture, money… Curiously, there is no obligation for the beneficiary, or “donee”, to “reveal” the donation, which is moreover in a certain delay, to the tax administration, while its taxation generates rights, and therefore revenue for the […]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the World Economic Summit in Davos in January 2023. FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP “Our message is: those who want to roll up their sleeves are welcome in Germany! » This astonishing invitation from Chancellor Olaf Scholz, made before an audience of big bosses and decision-makers […]

The economist Hippolyte d’Albis, in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), in July 2021. PHOTOPQR/LA PROVENCE/TOMASELLI ANTOINE/MAXPPP Director of research at the CNRS, professor at the Paris School of Economics and co-president of the Circle of economists, Hippolyte d’Albis is the author of the book Seniors and Employment (Les Presses de Sciences Po, 2022). […]

France is aging, and it is aging fast. Nothing surprising, really. At the end of the Second World War, the country experienced the strongest demographic surge in Europe. From 1946 to 1950, more than 850,000 children were born in France per year, the record being reached in 1949 with nearly […]

COLCANOPA In 2020, France had 15.1 million cats and 7.5 million domestic dogs, according to the Federation of Food Manufacturers for Dogs, Cats, Birds and Other Pets (Facco). Surfing on this hexagonal passion for pets, the – very flourishing – health insurance market is developing. “These contracts have existed with […]

AT approaching Valentine’s Day, the following case reminds us that if, in a couple, love disappears one day, the ex-spouses cannot, nevertheless, cause mutual harm to each other: Mme X, in divorce proceedings, had no right to destroy a mural, which her husband had painted in their dining room, eleven […]