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Do you need to inform your insurance company about renovations to French property?
Insurers will require proof that certain work has been carried out by qualified professionals
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Why are so many jobs classed as ‘liberal professions’ in France?
The French system groups a broad range of independent workers under the same legal category
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Where in France would the new plan for ‘wildfire’ second-home visas apply?
Visa could allow some Britons easier access to their French property
What is a tribunal de proximité?
I wish to take legal action and was told to apply to a tribunal de proximité . What is this?
This term is new this year, as part of a reform which abolished the terms tribunal d’instance and tribunal de grande instance (for more important cases). In theory they are all now absorbed into a service called tribunal judiciaire, but in smaller towns that only had a tribunal d’instance these are now deemed a local branch attached to a court in a bigger centre, and are described as tribunal de proximité.
