Are you about to remarry? The property and financial impacts will be legion, it is better to keep them in mind to avoid unpleasant surprises. If you are receiving a compensatory allowance, your remarriage may lead to a review, or even its abolition, if there is a “significant change in […]
Pension reform: what changes (already) in 2023
“This year will be the year of a pension reform which aims to ensure the balance of our system”, confirmed the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron, on December 31, 2022 during his wishes to the French. After the failure of the universal pension system, the executive hopes, in 2023, to […]
Livret A, minimum wage, pensions, housing or childcare aid… which will be upgraded in 2023
Inflation obliges, many amounts and rates must be revalued in a significant way this year. Please note, for certain benefits, such as pensions and family allowances, a 4% increase had been granted in advance in the summer of 2022 as part of the law of emergency measures for purchasing power […]
what changes on January 1 for the household budget
In front of a Navigo pass reloading station, in the Paris metro, in March 2020. HUGO PASSARELLO LUNA / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP Por the finances of individuals, the arrival of the new year rhymes with the entry into force of a series of measures, rate increases and revaluations. In […]
Real estate purchase: what if the seller dies before signing?
Question to an expert I signed a promise to sell, can I still buy the accommodation if the owner dies before the final signature? By signing a promise or a sales agreement, seller and buyer do not always measure the scope of their commitments and their fate in the event […]
Old age: the majority draws a bill
Along the promenade of Villers-sur-Mer (Calvados), June 19, 2022. SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP This October 13, Emmanuel Macron invited the Macronist deputies of the Social Affairs Committee to a breakfast at the Elysée. The Head of State takes notes while listening to Fadila Khattabi, president (Renaissance) of the commission, affirm […]
When fortune exposes to guardianship
UDoes an adult, whose mental faculties are only moderately impaired, but whose resources are significant, more likely than a person with modest incomes to be placed under guardianship and lose all legal capacity? This is the question posed by the following case. In 2016, Léonie X (names changed), who became […]
The European Commission wants to strengthen the rights of children from homoparental families
Gesa Teichert-Akkermann (left) and Verena Akkermann kiss their 11-month-old daughter, in Schellerten, Germany, January 12, 2021. JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE / JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE/PICTURE-ALLIANCE/DPA/AP IMAGES “If you are a parent in one country, you are a parent in all countries”, launched the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, before the […]
When the sealed will is used to commit an abuse of weakness
QWhat type of will do malicious individuals have to choose to get an elderly person to bequeath their property to them, without the notary noticing that they no longer have all their faculties and without the act risking, a posteriori, to be annulled by his heirs? “This cynical question, the […]
“There are heartbreaks at 90 that are as violent as teenage love”
ERIK ISAKSON/TETRA IMAGES/PHOTONONSTOP Doctor Patrick Papazian speaks in the podcast “Not even dead” of the Little Brothers of the Poor, launched in September on the occasion of the publication of the association’s report on the emotional, intimate and sexual life of the elderly. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers […]