Expertise
An international firm
Notaires sans Frontières is an expert in wealth management, real-estate, family and succession, particularly with an international focus, and welcomes you to its offices in Chambéry as well as supporting you wherever you may be, whatever your requirement. Cédric Daugan nurtures a solid relation with you and is sure to tailor advice to your particular circumstances.
Wealth management
Notaires sans Frontières is able to offer wealth management advice and consultancy to help optimise your tax situation. We are able to answer many questions you might have such as How to purchase a property? How to plan my inheritance? How to separate my estate? Do I need to change my matrimonial regime to suit my family circumstances? Is it useful to take out a life insurance policy as a pension top-up or to pass on to my heirs after I die?
Buying property. Directly or as a company, with your children, choice of funding
Inheritance planning. Simple or shared donations, reincorporation of previous donations, multi-generation inheritance, gradual and residual payments
Separation of property. Split purchases, quasi-usufruct, sales with freehold or leasehold, exchange of dismembered property
Adaptation of a matrimonial regime. Change of matrimonial regime, clauses protecting spouses, legal protection of children’s interests.
Life insurance. Bespoke beneficiary clauses, quasi-usufruct agreements.
Family &
Succession
Are you worried about guaranteeing harmonious family life and seamlessly passing on your assets and properties to your family? Notaires sans Frontières offers advice in the choice of your matrimonial regime and supports you with preparation of your succession.
In the event of separation or the death of my spouse, will marriage offer me the best protection or is a civil partnership or cohabitation better? How can I best protect my wife or husband? Following divorce or legal separation, how can we share our estate? What are the best measures to take in case of any vulnerability or incapacity? How can I prepare my succession to avoid any arguments or disagreements between my children?
Choice of a matrimonial regime. Cohabitation, civil partnership agreement, marriage.
Protection as part of a couple. Last will and testament, donation between spouses, adaptation of a matrimonial regime.
Divorce and legal separation. Analysis of assets and liabilities, administration of the matrimonial regime, distribution and settlement, indivisible ownership agreements.
Vulnerability and incapacity. Lasting power of attorneys, family power of attorneys, reorganisation of estate.
Preventing conflicts as part of a succession. Donations and last will and testament, posthumous mandates.
Settlement of successions. Strategic advice, asset and tax analysis, options and separation, drafting deeds.
Real-estate
Your notary public is a legal officer who is able to authenticate legal deeds as a real-estate expert and providing assistance when buying and selling property.
How can I sell my property when I live abroad? Is it better to set up a limited liability partnership to buy our home? Can I receive support to value a property I want to buy? How can I get help to fund my apartment? How can I optimise the sale of my house for tax purposes?
We are able to provide you with answers to all of these questions.
Buying property as an individual. Structuring and financing, protection as a couple, non-residents.
Setting up a limited liability partnership to buy a property.
Auditing. Legal and technical aspects of real-estate, analysis of lease agreements, urban planning and construction.
Financing and guarantees. Strategic analysis of guarantees.
Sales transactions. Management of capital gains, specific distribution of the sales price.
International Pedigree
Cédric Daugan has plied his trade across all four corners of the globe, from Berlin, to Russia, via San Francisco and Palo Alto. Thanks to his expertise gained abroad, combined with his fluency in English and knowledge of German and Russian, he is a true expert in international law.
Expats and foreign nationals who have set up in France come face to face with some unique issues such as matrimonial regimes, succession and tax and often ask a host of questions including how to best organise an expatriation? How to purchase a property abroad? How can I, as a non-resident in France (or: foreign national in France), buy a house on the Côte d’Azur?
Estate planning. Anticipation and supporting inheritance, drafting last will and testaments, international donations.
Marriage and foreign nationals. Analysis of matrimonial regimes, specific prenuptial agreements, declaration of applicable legislation.
International real-estate purchases. Buying property abroad for residents of France, buying properties in France for non-residents.
International family affairs. Analysis of consequences, legal and tax assistance, bespoke estate planning, leaving to live abroad.
Trust. Analysis of agreements, legal and tax consequences in France
Scale of emoluments
and fees
Notaries’ fees are governed by :
- Article 50 of law n°2015-990 of August 6, 215
- Decree no. 2016-230 of February 26, 2016
- Order of February 26, 2016
