Your questions, my answers
Questions and guides
Your couple 14
- What type of union should I choose?
- How is a marriage contract drawn up?
- What are the different matrimonial property regimes?
- What is the liquidation of the matrimonial property regime?
- What is compensatory allowance?
- How can I best prepare for my divorce?
- How do contentious divorce proceedings work?
- How does a divorce by mutual consent work?
- What are the grounds for divorce?
- Why conclude a marriage contract?
- What are the different kinds of matrimonial regime?
- What are my rights as a married spouse?
- What are my rights in a civil partnership (PACS)?
- What are my rights as an unmarried couple (cohabitation)?
Your children 10
- What should I do if one of the parents fails to comply with their legal obligations?
- How can I contest parentage?
- What should I do in the event of international child abduction?
- What is the contribution to the maintenance and education of the child?
- What kind of visiting and accommodation rights should be considered?
- What does parental authority cover?
- How can a foreign parentage be recognized?
- How does the adoption procedure work?
- How can I legally establish my parentage?
- What kinds of parentage are possible?
Your assets 8
- How does a judicial procedure for the liquidation of the estate work?
- How does an amicable division of an estate work?
- How can I organize and anticipate the consequences of an inheritance?
- What are my rights in the event of inheritance?
- How is the amount of maintenance payments determined?
- How is the amount of the compensatory allowance determined?
- How does the liquidation of the matrimonial property regime work?
- What are the financial consequences of a separation?
International 20
- How can a foreign decision be recognized in France?
- Is French law always applicable?
- Do French courts always have jurisdiction?
- What are the consequences of the international context of my dispute?
- What is an international divorce?
- What is an international family lawyer?
- Can I move abroad with my child?
- Which court decides where a child living abroad will reside?
- How can contact be organized across two countries?
- How can I prevent my child from leaving the country?
- Can my child be heard by the judge?
- How can maintenance be recovered abroad?
- Will my divorce by mutual consent be recognized abroad?
- How can a family agreement be made enforceable in France and abroad?
- What are the legal effects of moving abroad on our family?
- Which law applies to our international matrimonial property?
- Can we change the law governing our matrimonial property?
- Can I choose the law governing my succession?
- How can I make a will valid in several countries?
- How are family-law fees determined?
Amicable solutions 5
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Moving abroad 7
- Should we make a prenuptial agreement before moving abroad?
- How can we prepare a move together with the children?
- Who can help with relationship difficulties far from France?
- Can mediation take place remotely and in English?
- Can the mediator advise one of us?
- How can we prepare a return to France as a family?
- Why should an employer consider its expatriates’ family life?
Guides to read online
Nine guides and a checklist
Free, in English and French, they take the answers further: five practical guides and a checklist to understand your situation, then four toolkit guides to analyze it with the maps and simulators. All can be read online and received as a PDF in the same way.
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Read online
Each guide opens online, page by page, without registration.
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Give your name and email address
A short form in the viewer lets us send you your copy.
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Receive the PDF
A personal copy in your name, sent by email, for each of the nine guides.
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Keep it for personal use
Each PDF is protected and reserved for personal use; a note at the bottom of every page reminds you of this.
The five practical guides and the “Before you leave” checklist
To understand: international families, moving abroad as a family, reaching agreement across borders, divorce country by country and your most frequent questions.
International families
Moving abroad as a family
Reaching agreement across borders
International divorce, country by country
Your questions, my answers
Before you leave: checklist
The four toolkit guides
To analyze your situation: each guide comes with an interactive map and a simulator, on the Tools page. Read it first: it explains the rules that the map and the simulator then apply to your answers.
- Guide 1/4 · 2026
Which Court? Which Law?
Which court to turn to, which law applies: couples, children, property.
- Guide 2/4 · 2026
Which Path? Which Step?
Anticipate, negotiate, protect, have a court decide, enforce, challenge: the right path at the right time.
- Guide 3/4 · 2026
Which Support? How Much?
Child support, spousal support during the proceedings, compensatory allowance: understanding the calculation.
- Guide 4/4 · 2026
Which Division? Which Rights?
Community property, separation of property, participation in acquests: count before dividing.
Contact
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