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Sophie Hearle of Ashtons Legal answers a reader query on French inheritance and step-children's rights

Advance payment cuts pain of a big December bill, when the full balance in due

John Kitching, a director of French Law Consultancy Limited, answers a reader query on electing the law of your nationality

Christopher Davenport of Kentingtons makes sense of UK-listed funds no longer being allowed to be purchased in an assurance vie

How many recorded new cases are there? Can I travel to France this summer? How is France planning to ease restrictions? How is the vaccination campaign progressing? We explain

New rules mean people in France can choose a regular pharmacist and some repeat prescriptions can be given without a GP appointment 

Professor Axel Kahn confirmed his retirement this week, and made a moving statement in which he referred to death as an ‘old friend’

The number of workplaces required could fall by more than 27% if firms switch to two days of home work a week, according to the IEIF

Up to 48 houses are to be bought by the state because they are under flightpaths to Nantes Atlantique airport

The Château de Nescus is set in a national park with extensive grounds and was formerly a convent, then a children's holiday centre. It needs extensive renovation work

The scheme can be used to finance insulation, heating, ventilation or energy auditing work

Sponsored feature: This publication has been a reference guide to bilingual education in France for 35 years. AAWE, the Association of American Women in Europe, is known as an authority on bilingual education in the Anglophone community in France, helping international families to flourish in France and their children to thrive in school.

An MP who is supporting the idea said it was an ‘important marker’ for women and that families could still choose to give one name if they preferred

The 200 birds are looked after by Maréchal des Logis Sylvain, of the 8th Régiment de Transmissions at Mont Valérien in Hauts-de-Seine

Retired people can still do work and earn extra with a 'micro-entreprise' small business, with some conditions